scholarly journals Selecting Essential Information for Biosurveillance - A Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Generous ◽  
Kristen Margevicius ◽  
Kirsten Taylor-McCabe ◽  
Mac Brown ◽  
W. Brent Daniel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Streams ◽  
Surveillance System ◽  
Disease Surveillance ◽  
Utility Theory ◽  
Essential Information ◽  
Infectious Disease Surveillance ◽  
Disease Surveillance System ◽  
Decision Support Framework ◽  
Multi Attribute Utility Theory ◽  
Infectious Disease Surveillance System

This paper proposes the use of Multi-Attribute Utility Theory to address the issue of identifying and selecting essential information for inclusion into a biosurveillance system or process. We developed a decision support framework that can facilitate identifying data streams for use in biosurveillance systems or processes and demonstrated utility by applying the framework to the problem of evaluating data streams for use in an global infectious disease surveillance system.

scholarly journals Using National Health Insurance Claims Data to Supplement Notifiable Infectious Disease Surveillance System

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heeyoung Lee ◽  
Kwan Lee ◽  
Seon-ju Yi ◽  
Gichan Park ◽  
Hwami Kim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
National Health Insurance ◽  
National Health ◽  
Surveillance System ◽  
Disease Surveillance ◽  
Claims Data ◽  
Infectious Disease Surveillance ◽  
Disease Surveillance System ◽  
Infectious Disease Surveillance System

This study will determine opportunity of using the National Health Insurance (NHI) claims data for supplemental notifiable infectious disease surveillance system at national or regional levels.

scholarly journals Infectious disease surveillance system descriptors: proposal for a comprehensive set

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (27) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julien Beauté ◽  
Bruno Christian Ciancio ◽  
Takis Panagiotopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Surveillance System ◽  
Disease Surveillance ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
Infectious Disease Surveillance ◽  
Disease Surveillance System ◽  
Minimum Requirements ◽  
Fit For Purpose ◽  
Surveillance Scheme ◽  
Infectious Disease Surveillance System

To tailor a surveillance system to its objectives and to evaluate its fitness for purpose, an accurate description of its structural elements is essential. Existing recommendations for setting up a system seldom offer a comprehensive list of all surveillance elements to be considered. Moreover, there is sometimes confusion in the way terms describing these elements are interpreted. The objective of this paper is to propose a comprehensive set of surveillance system descriptors that can delineate the important elements and clarify the meaning of the terms used. We identified 20 descriptors that we classified in five categories: (i) surveillance scheme; (ii) population and cases; (iii) supplementary data; (iv) information flow; and (v) period of time. We tried to make the definitions of these descriptors as clear and simple as possible to avoid confusion or misinterpretation of the terms used. The relative importance of each element may vary depending on the objectives of the surveillance scheme. Surveillance descriptors should be reviewed periodically to document changes and to assess if the system continues to be fit for purpose. Together with the minimum requirements for variables and the planned outputs for disseminating the data, the surveillance descriptors can be used to define surveillance standards.

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