Evaluating Frequency, Diagnostic Quality, and Cost of Lyme Borreliosis Testing in Germany: A Retrospective Model Analysis

Figure 5

Average epidemiological annual distribution of coded incident and prevalent diagnoses of LB (incident DAK, prevalent DAK) as observed in the retrospective claims’ data analysis depicted together with the average annual distribution of cases as reported by mandatory reporting (incident RKI) in the six new German states for 2007 to 2008. Q1–Q4: quarter of year.