Can near real-time monitoring of emergency department diagnoses facilitate early response to sporadic meningococcal infection? - prospective and retrospective evaluations

Table 1 Demographic data for notifications of confirmed meningococcal cases and emergency department diagnoses of meningococcal disease, NSW, 2004

	Confirmed meningococcal cases		ED diagnoses of meningococcal disease
Age groups	N	%	N	%
0 to 4 years	51	34	65	44
5 to 14 years	17	11	35	24
15 to 24 years	30	20	13	9
25 to 44 years	18	12	21	14
44+ years	33	22	13	9
Sex
Male	76	51	80	54
Female	73	49	67	46
Total	149	100	147	100

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