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Timeliness

Description

The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s (NYC DOHMH) Division of Disease Control (DDC) conducts surveillance of more than 90 specific diseases and conditions and relies on both provider reports and electronic laboratory reports for data. While laboratory reports provide vital laboratory data and represent the majority of the surveillance data that DOHMH receives, they are not always timely or sufficient to confirm a case. Provider reports, in contrast, contain data often not available in laboratory reports and can be more prompt than laboratory reports. Health care providers submit provider reports through multiple channels, including through mailing or faxing paper forms, phone calls, and Reporting Central (RC). In 2016, providers used RC to submit ~51,000 provider reports.

Objective:

As part of New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s (NYC DOHMH) efforts to improve provider reporting, the Division of Disease Control surveyed and conducted focus groups with users of a web-based reporting portal called Reporting Central (RC) to learn about their experience with submitting provider reports through RC and the impact of their experience on data submission.

Submitted by elamb on
Description

Timeliness of reports sent by laboratories and providers is a continuous challenge for disease surveillance and management. Public health organizations often collect communicable disease reports with various degrees of timeliness raising the concern about the delay in patient information received. Timely reports are beneficial to accurately evaluate community health needs and investigate disease outbreaks. According to Indiana state law, chlamydia reports are required to be sent to public health within 3 days after a positive test result confirmation. Therefore, laboratories and providers must be accountable and comply with regulation to ensure accurate data quality of disease assessment.

Objective

To analyze the time delay between a chlamydia positive test diagnosis and when a laboratory and/or a provider sends a report to a local public health department.

Submitted by teresa.hamby@d… on
Description

Syndromic surveillance system has been developed and implemented all over the world, and many studies showed that syndromic data sources had improved timeliness towards traditional surveillance method in the early warning of some infectious disease epidemics. However, owing to the uncertainties of disease epidemic features, clinical manifestations and population behaviors, the early warning timeliness of syndromic data sources might change across time and population, and few studies had explored their consistency in different epidemic periods of infectious diseases.

Objective

To study and compare the timeliness of syndromic surveillance system for the early warning of infectious diseases among different epidemic seasons.

Submitted by teresa.hamby@d… on