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Effect of Information Disclosure Policy on Control of Infectious Disease: MERS-CoV Outbreak in South Korea
- Source :
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Volume 17, Issue 1, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 17, Iss 1, p 305 (2020), International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(1):305. MDPI AG
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- This study examined the effect of disclosing a list of hospitals with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) patients on the number of laboratory-confirmed MERS-CoV cases in South Korea. MERS-CoV data from 20 May 2015 to 5 July 2015 were from the Korean Ministry of Health &amp<br />Welfare website and analyzed using segmented linear autoregressive error models for interrupted time series. This study showed that the number of laboratory-confirmed cases was increased by 14.629 on June 5 (p &lt<br />0.001). However, this number was significantly decreased following disclosure of a list of hospitals with MERS-CoV cases (Estimate = &minus<br />0.948<br />p &lt<br />0.001). Disclosing the list of hospitals exposed to MERS-CoV was critical to the prevention of further infection. It reduced the number of confirmed MERS-CoV cases. Thus, providing accurate and timely information is a key to critical care response.
- Subjects :
- Male
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
viruses
lcsh:Medicine
medicine.disease_cause
Interrupted Time Series Analysis
Disease Outbreaks
MERS-CoV
0302 clinical medicine
prevention
Medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
media_common
Middle East respiratory syndrome
virus diseases
Records
respiratory system
Policy
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus
030211 gastroenterology & hepatology
Christian ministry
Female
Coronavirus Infections
Adult
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus
media_common.quotation_subject
infectious disease
Disclosure
Article
03 medical and health sciences
Republic of Korea
Information disclosure
Humans
SARS
business.industry
lcsh:R
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Outbreak
INTERRUPTED TIME-SERIES
biochemical phenomena, metabolism, and nutrition
medicine.disease
respiratory tract diseases
Infectious disease (medical specialty)
information disclosure policy
business
Laboratories
Welfare
Demography
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 16604601 and 16617827
- Volume :
- 17
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International journal of environmental research and public health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....54f06888c8f61c9317ebc3bdc0dc9e61