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Evaluating a standard influenza-like illness syndrome definition across multiple sites in the distribute project: The ‘ILI-s’ Pilot
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The Distribute project began in 2006 as a distributed, syndromic surveillance demonstration project that networked state and local health departments to share aggregate emergency department-based influenza-like illness (ILI) syndrome… read more… departments for their own surveillance needs. Originally, sites were asked to send whatever syndrome definition they … to send their broader, higher count syndrome. In 2008, sites were asked to send both a broad syndrome, and a narrow … illness syndrome definition across multiple sites in the distribute project: The ‘ILI-s’ Pilot DR … -
How good is your data?
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Distribute is a national emergency department syndromic surveillance project developed by the International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) for influenza-like-illness (ILI) that integrates data from existing state and local public health… read more… provides graphic comparisons of both ILI-related clinical visits across jurisdictions and a national picture of ILI. … create some unique data quality issues, with considerable site to site variability. Together with the ISDS, the … of data quality results across participating Distribute sites. Document How_Good_Is_Your_Data.pdf 4 views Submitted … -
Using Change Point Detection for Monitoring the Quality of Aggregate Data
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Data consisting of counts or indicators aggregated from multiple sources pose particular problems for data quality monitoring when the users of the aggregate data are blind to the individual sources. This arises when agencies wish to share data but… read more… was designed to work solely with aggregated data, with sites providing data aggregated from sources within their … long-term changes in the source make up of the reporting sites and lack of data timeliness due to individual site data accruing over time rather than in batch. Data … -
Visualizing Data Quality: Tools and Views
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Distribute is a national emergency department syndromic surveillance project developed by the International Society for Disease Surveillance for influenza-like-illness (ILI) that integrates data from existing state and local public health department… read more… provides graphic comparisons of both ILI-related clinical visits across jurisdictions and a national picture of ILI. … some unique data quality issues, with considerable site to site variability. Together with the ISDS, the University of … provides graphic comparisons of both ILI-related clinical visits across jurisdictions and a national picture of ILI. … -
Automated Collection of Electronic Health Record Healthy Weight Data for Surveillance
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Clinical data captured in electronic health records (EHR) for patient health care could be used for chronic disease surveillance, helping to inform and prioritize interventions at a state or community level. While there has been significant progress… read more… in electronic health records (EHR) for patient health care could be used for chronic disease surveillance, helping … with the option to transmit behavioral, continuity of care, community resource identification and care plan information. We worked with vendors participating … -
Accrued – An R Package for Visualizing Data Quality for Aggregate Surveillance Data
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The utility of specific sources of data for surveillance, and the quality of those data, are an ingoing issue in public health(1). Syndromic surveillance is typically conducted as a secondary use of data collected as part of routine clinical… read more… influenza like illness (ILI) and gastroenteritis (GI) ED visits on a nationwide basis. This system collected counts for ILI, GI and total ED visits, aggregated to the level of jurisdiction. The primary … influenza like illness (ILI) and gastroenteritis (GI) ED visits on a nationwide basis. This system collected counts …