Should this event be notified to the World Health Organization? reliability of the international health regulations notification assessment process

• Main Authors: Thomas Haustein (Author), Helge Hollmeyer (Author), Max Hardiman (Author), Stephan Harbarth (Author), Didier Pittet (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The World Health Organization.
• Subjects: article
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OBJECTIVE: To investigate the reliability of the public health event notification assessment process under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR). METHODS: In 2009, 193 National IHR Focal Points (NFPs) were invited to use the decision instrument in Annex 2 of the IHR to determine whether...