Zucs A P, Benzler J, Krause G
Federal Office of Public Health, Berne, Switzerland.
Euro Surveill. 2005 Jan;10(1):26-7.
In 2000, the new German infectious disease control act replaced aggregate with individual case reporting. The process was facilitated by the simultaneous introduction of electronic data transfer within the public health system. Reporting laboratories have not been electronically connected to this network. A survey by means of a postal questionnaire was conducted in 2003 among 537 German medical microbiology laboratories to explore their reporting habits, preference for electronic reporting formats, and relevant software equipment. Almost 90% of the respondents indicated a reporting delay of no more than 24 hours and 45% were still manually filling in paper forms for reporting purposes. The introduction of electronic reporting formats was favoured by 74% of the laboratories although 33% were not using any microbiology-specific software and the remaining 67% listed 62 different products. Pilot projects with selected software manufacturers might help to pave the way for the implementation of a standardised electronic infectious disease reporting format in Germany.
2000年，德国新的传染病控制法案将汇总报告改为个案报告。公共卫生系统同时引入电子数据传输推动了这一进程。报告实验室尚未通过电子方式接入该网络。2003年，通过邮政问卷对537家德国医学微生物实验室进行了一项调查，以探究它们的报告习惯、对电子报告格式的偏好以及相关软件设备情况。近90%的受访者表示报告延迟不超过24小时，45%的实验室仍在手动填写纸质报告表格。74%的实验室赞成采用电子报告格式，不过33%的实验室未使用任何微生物学专用软件，其余67%的实验室列出了62种不同产品。与选定软件制造商开展试点项目可能有助于为在德国实施标准化电子传染病报告格式铺平道路。
