MMWR Recomm Rep. 1997 May 2;46(RR-10):1-55.
State and local public health officials rely on health-care providers, laboratories, and other public health personnel to report the occurrence of notifiable diseases to state and local health departments. Without such data, trends cannot be accurately monitored, unusual occurrences of diseases might not be detected, and the effectiveness of intervention activities cannot be easily evaluated. In the United States, requirements for reporting diseases are mandated by state laws or regulations, and the list of reportable diseases in each state differs. In October 1990, in collaboration with the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, CDC published Case Definitions for Public Health Surveillance (MMWR 1990;39[No. RR-13]), which, for the first time, provided uniform criteria for reporting cases. This report provides updated uniform criteria for state health department personnel to use when reporting the nationally notifiable infectious diseases listed in Part 1 of this report. A revision date is listed for each case definition that has been revised. Newly generated case definitions that have not been published previously are designated as "adopted" on the specified date. Case definitions for some infectious conditions not designated as nationally notifiable are included in Part 2 of this report. Some of these conditions may have been nationally notifiable or may become so; definitions are included here to facilitate interpretation of data for these diseases. These conditions may be reportable in some states.
州和地方公共卫生官员依靠医疗保健提供者、实验室及其他公共卫生人员向州和地方卫生部门报告应报告疾病的发生情况。没有这些数据，就无法准确监测疾病趋势，可能无法发现疾病的异常发生情况，也难以评估干预活动的效果。在美国，报告疾病的要求由州法律或法规规定，每个州的应报告疾病清单各不相同。1990年10月，疾病预防控制中心与州和地区流行病学家理事会合作，发布了《公共卫生监测病例定义》（《发病率与死亡率周报》1990年；39[第RR - 13号]），首次为病例报告提供了统一标准。本报告为州卫生部门人员在报告本报告第1部分列出的全国应报告传染病时提供了更新的统一标准。每个已修订的病例定义都列出了修订日期。新生成的、以前未发布的病例定义在指定日期被指定为“采用”。本报告第2部分包含了一些未被指定为全国应报告的传染病的病例定义。其中一些疾病可能以前是全国应报告的，或者可能会成为全国应报告的疾病；此处包含这些定义是为了便于对这些疾病的数据进行解读。这些疾病在某些州可能是应报告的。
