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Beginner R methods for syndromic surveillance data validation

Description

There are currently 123 healthcare facilities sending data to the Washington (WA) State syndromic surveillance program. Of these facilities, 30 are sending to the National Syndromic Surveillance Program'™s (NSSP) production environment. The remainder are undergoing validation or in queue for validation. Given the large number of WA healthcare facilities awaiting validation, staff within the state syndromic surveillance program developed methods in R to reduce the amount of time required to validate data from an individual facility.

Objective:

To share practical, user-friendly data validation methods in R that result in shorter validation time and simpler code.

Submitted by elamb on