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Ursula Kunze - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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tick borne encephalitis as a Notifiable Disease status quo and the way forward report of the 17th annual meeting of the international scientific working group on tick borne encephalitis isw tbe
Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, 2015Co-Authors: Ursula KunzeAbstract:The 17th meeting of the International Scientific Working Group on Tick-Borne Encephalitis (ISW-TBE), a group of neurologists, general practicioners, clinicians, travel physicians, virologists, pediatricians, and epidemiologists, was held under the title “Tick-borne encephalitis as a Notifiable Disease – status quo and the way forward”. The conference agenda was divided into three parts on the first day: “Epidemiology & Risk areas”, “Poster Walk: Epidemiological Update in Europe”, and “News in TBE Research”. On the second day, a World Cafe Working Session took place where the participants could choose three tables out of six to join for discussion. Key topics on current epidemiological developments and investigations, risk areas, cases, travel and mobility, TBE in children, vaccination rates, and latest news on vaccination were presented and extensively discussed.
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tick borne encephalitis a Notifiable Disease a review after one year report of the 16th annual meeting of the international scientific working group on tick borne encephalitis isw tbe
Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, 2014Co-Authors: Ursula KunzeAbstract:Abstract The 16th Meeting of the International Scientific Working Group on Tick-Borne Encephalitis (ISW-TBE) – a group of neurologists, general practicioners, clinicians, travel physicans, virologists, paediatricians, and epidemiologists – was held under the title “Tick-borne Encephalitis – a Notifiable Disease, a Review after One Year”. With the inclusion of TBE in the list of Notifiable Diseases in 2012, an important measure was established to continue improving the level of evidence on TBE in Europe to better help guide policies and methods to lower the burden of this Disease. The conference agenda was divided into six parts concerning Travel Medicine, Epidemiology & Risk Areas, Poster Session with an Epidemiological Update in Europe, Interactive Debate, Cases, and Social Communiation and Recommendations. Important topics regarding current epidemiological investigations, risk areas, mobility, cases, TBE in children, treatment options, vaccination rates, and latest news on vaccination were presented and extensively discussed.
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Tick-borne encephalitis – A Notifiable Disease, a review after one year: Report of the 16th Annual Meeting of the International Scientific Working Group on Tick-Borne Encephalitis (ISW-TBE)
Ticks and tick-borne diseases, 2014Co-Authors: Ursula KunzeAbstract:The 16th Meeting of the International Scientific Working Group on Tick-Borne Encephalitis (ISW-TBE) - a group of neurologists, general practitioners, clinicians, travel physicians, virologists, paediatricians, and epidemiologists - was held under the title "Tick-borne Encephalitis - a Notifiable Disease, a Review after One Year". With the inclusion of TBE in the list of Notifiable Diseases in 2012, an important measure was established to continue improving the level of evidence on TBE in Europe to better help guide policies and methods to lower the burden of this Disease. The conference agenda was divided into six parts concerning Travel Medicine, Epidemiology & Risk Areas, Poster Session with an Epidemiological Update in Europe, Interactive Debate, Cases, and Social Communication and Recommendations. Important topics regarding current epidemiological investigations, risk areas, mobility, cases, TBE in children, treatment options, vaccination rates, and latest news on vaccination were presented and extensively discussed.
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Tick-borne encephalitis--a Notifiable Disease: report of the 15th Annual Meeting of the International Scientific Working Group on Tick-Borne Encephalitis (ISW-TBE).
Ticks and tick-borne diseases, 2013Co-Authors: Ursula KunzeAbstract:The 15th Meeting of the International Scientific Working Group on Tick-Borne Encephalitis (ISW-TBE)--a group of neurologists, general practicioners, clinicians, travel physicans, virologists, pediatricians, and epidemiologists--was held under the title "Tick-Borne Encephalitis--a Notifiable Disease". With the inclusion of TBE in the list of Notifiable Diseases, an important measure was established to continue improving the level of evidence on TBE in Europe to better help guide policies and methods to lower the burden of this Disease. Due to differences in diagnosis, case definition, and reporting in European countries, the overall epidemiology and burden of TBE remains unclear. During the meeting, important issues regarding epidemiology, risk areas, vaccination rates, and latest news on vaccination were presented and extensively discussed. A poster session provided an overview of the epidemiological situation 2012 in 13 European countries.
Shaun J. Grannis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Improving Notifiable Disease Case Reporting Through Electronic Information Exchange-Facilitated Decision Support: A Controlled Before-and-After Trial.
Public health reports (Washington D.C. : 1974), 2020Co-Authors: Brian E. Dixon, Zuoyi Zhang, Janet N. Arno, Debra Revere, P. Joseph Gibson, Shaun J. GrannisAbstract:Outbreak detection and Disease control may be improved by simplified, semi-automated reporting of Notifiable Diseases to public health authorities. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of an electronic, prepopulated Notifiable Disease report form on case reporting rates by ambulatory care clinics to public health authorities. We conducted a 2-year (2012-2014) controlled before-and-after trial of a health information exchange (HIE) intervention in Indiana designed to prepopulate Notifiable Disease reporting forms to providers. We analyzed data collected from electronic prepopulated reports and "usual care" (paper, fax) reports submitted to a local health department for 7 conditions by using a difference-in-differences model. Primary outcomes were changes in reporting rates, completeness, and timeliness between intervention and control clinics. Provider reporting rates for chlamydia and gonorrhea in intervention clinics increased significantly from 56.9% and 55.6%, respectively, during the baseline period (2012) to 66.4% and 58.3%, respectively, during the intervention period (2013-2014); they decreased from 28.8% and 27.5%, respectively, to 21.7% and 20.6%, respectively, in control clinics (P < .001). Completeness improved from baseline to intervention for 4 of 15 fields in reports from intervention clinics (P < .001), although mean completeness improved for 11 fields in both intervention and control clinics. Timeliness improved for both intervention and control clinics; however, reports from control clinics were timelier (mean, 7.9 days) than reports from intervention clinics (mean, 9.7 days). Electronic, prepopulated case reporting forms integrated into providers' workflow, enabled by an HIE network, can be effective in increasing Notifiable Disease reporting rates and completeness of information. However, it was difficult to assess the effect of using the forms for Diseases with low prevalence (eg, salmonellosis, histoplasmosis).
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Completeness and timeliness of Notifiable Disease reporting: a comparison of laboratory and provider reports submitted to a large county health department
BMC medical informatics and decision making, 2017Co-Authors: Brian E. Dixon, Patrick T. S. Lai, Zuoyi Zhang, Debra Revere, P. Joseph Gibson, Uzay Kirbiyik, Jennifer L Williams, Rebecca A Hills, Shaun J. GrannisAbstract:Most public health agencies expect reporting of Diseases to be initiated by hospital, laboratory or clinic staff even though so-called passive approaches are known to be burdensome for reporters and produce incomplete as well as delayed reports, which can hinder assessment of Disease and delay recognition of outbreaks. In this study, we analyze patterns of reporting as well as data completeness and timeliness for traditional, passive reporting of Notifiable Disease by two distinct sources of information: hospital and clinic staff versus clinical laboratory staff. Reports were submitted via fax machine as well as electronic health information exchange interfaces. Data were extracted from all submitted Notifiable Disease reports for seven representative Diseases. Reporting rates are the proportion of known cases having a corresponding case report from a provider, a faxed laboratory report or an electronic laboratory report. Reporting rates were stratified by Disease and compared using McNemar’s test. For key data fields on the reports, completeness was calculated as the proportion of non-blank fields. Timeliness was measured as the difference between date of laboratory confirmed diagnosis and the date the report was received by the health department. Differences in completeness and timeliness by data source were evaluated using a generalized linear model with Pearson’s goodness of fit statistic. We assessed 13,269 reports representing 9034 unique cases. Reporting rates varied by Disease with overall rates of 19.1% for providers and 84.4% for laboratories (p
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Evaluating Notifiable Disease Reporting by Providers: Analysis of Data Element Completeness
Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 2014Co-Authors: Patrick T. S. Lai, Kavya R. Gujjula, Shaun J. Grannis, Brian E. DixonAbstract:Provider reporting of Notifiable Disease is a critical component of public health assessment and surveillance. To efficiently and effectively assess and respond to Disease, health departments require complete data from providers. To better understand the level of completeness in provider reporting, we examined key data elements across 7 Notifiable Diseases reported to a local health department. We found that some fields are incomplete more than half the time and provider demographics are frequently missing. We discuss the implications on public health workflow and opportunities for improvement.
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clinical versus public health perceptions of Notifiable Disease reporting burden
Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 2014Co-Authors: Debra Revere, Shaun J. Grannis, Rebecca A Hills, Brian E. DixonAbstract:Public health surveillance depends, in part, on provider-submitted reports of communicable Diseases. The 'Improving Population Health through Enhanced Targeted Regional Decision Support' research project is implementing a novel technology to pre-populate report forms in order to streamline reporting workflows, lower reporting barriers, increase data completeness, improve timeliness and, ultimately, provide access to higher quality surveillance data for public health organizations. We will share preliminary evaluation results regarding barriers and facilitators to implementation and utilization of the intervention; and differences in perceptions regarding reporting burden on clinical and public health workers.
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electronic health information quality challenges and interventions to improve public health surveillance data and practice
Public Health Reports, 2013Co-Authors: Brian E. Dixon, Jason Siegel, Tanya V Oemig, Shaun J. GrannisAbstract:Objective.We examined completeness, an attribute of data quality, in the context of electronic laboratory reporting (ELR) of Notifiable Disease information to public health agencies.Methods.We extracted more than seven million ELR messages from multiple clinical information systems in two states We calculated and compared the completeness of various data fields within the messages that were identified to be important to public health reporting processes We compared unaltered, original messages from source systems with similar messages from another state as well as messages enriched by a health information exchange (HIE). Our analysis focused on calculating completeness (i e, the number of nonmissing values) for fields deemed important for inclusion in Notifiable Disease case reports.Results.The completeness of data fields for laboratory transactions varied across clinical information systems and jurisdictions. Fields identifying the patient and test results were usually complete (97%–100%). Fields contain...
M L Cherry - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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south africa reveals plans to make aids a Notifiable Disease
Nature, 1999Co-Authors: M L CherryAbstract:cape town South Africa's Minister for Health has proposed that AIDS should be made a Notifiable Disease.
Brian E. Dixon - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Improving Notifiable Disease Case Reporting Through Electronic Information Exchange-Facilitated Decision Support: A Controlled Before-and-After Trial.
Public health reports (Washington D.C. : 1974), 2020Co-Authors: Brian E. Dixon, Zuoyi Zhang, Janet N. Arno, Debra Revere, P. Joseph Gibson, Shaun J. GrannisAbstract:Outbreak detection and Disease control may be improved by simplified, semi-automated reporting of Notifiable Diseases to public health authorities. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of an electronic, prepopulated Notifiable Disease report form on case reporting rates by ambulatory care clinics to public health authorities. We conducted a 2-year (2012-2014) controlled before-and-after trial of a health information exchange (HIE) intervention in Indiana designed to prepopulate Notifiable Disease reporting forms to providers. We analyzed data collected from electronic prepopulated reports and "usual care" (paper, fax) reports submitted to a local health department for 7 conditions by using a difference-in-differences model. Primary outcomes were changes in reporting rates, completeness, and timeliness between intervention and control clinics. Provider reporting rates for chlamydia and gonorrhea in intervention clinics increased significantly from 56.9% and 55.6%, respectively, during the baseline period (2012) to 66.4% and 58.3%, respectively, during the intervention period (2013-2014); they decreased from 28.8% and 27.5%, respectively, to 21.7% and 20.6%, respectively, in control clinics (P < .001). Completeness improved from baseline to intervention for 4 of 15 fields in reports from intervention clinics (P < .001), although mean completeness improved for 11 fields in both intervention and control clinics. Timeliness improved for both intervention and control clinics; however, reports from control clinics were timelier (mean, 7.9 days) than reports from intervention clinics (mean, 9.7 days). Electronic, prepopulated case reporting forms integrated into providers' workflow, enabled by an HIE network, can be effective in increasing Notifiable Disease reporting rates and completeness of information. However, it was difficult to assess the effect of using the forms for Diseases with low prevalence (eg, salmonellosis, histoplasmosis).
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completeness and timeliness of Notifiable Disease reporting a comparison of laboratory and provider reports submitted to a large county health department
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2017Co-Authors: Brian E. Dixon, Patrick T. S. Lai, Zuoyi Zhang, Debra Revere, Uzay Kirbiyik, Jennifer L Williams, Rebecca A Hills, Joseph P GibsonAbstract:Most public health agencies expect reporting of Diseases to be initiated by hospital, laboratory or clinic staff even though so-called passive approaches are known to be burdensome for reporters and produce incomplete as well as delayed reports, which can hinder assessment of Disease and delay recognition of outbreaks. In this study, we analyze patterns of reporting as well as data completeness and timeliness for traditional, passive reporting of Notifiable Disease by two distinct sources of information: hospital and clinic staff versus clinical laboratory staff. Reports were submitted via fax machine as well as electronic health information exchange interfaces. Data were extracted from all submitted Notifiable Disease reports for seven representative Diseases. Reporting rates are the proportion of known cases having a corresponding case report from a provider, a faxed laboratory report or an electronic laboratory report. Reporting rates were stratified by Disease and compared using McNemar’s test. For key data fields on the reports, completeness was calculated as the proportion of non-blank fields. Timeliness was measured as the difference between date of laboratory confirmed diagnosis and the date the report was received by the health department. Differences in completeness and timeliness by data source were evaluated using a generalized linear model with Pearson’s goodness of fit statistic. We assessed 13,269 reports representing 9034 unique cases. Reporting rates varied by Disease with overall rates of 19.1% for providers and 84.4% for laboratories (p < 0.001). All but three of 15 data fields in provider reports were more often complete than those fields within laboratory reports (p <0.001). Laboratory reports, whether faxed or electronically sent, were received, on average, 2.2 days after diagnosis versus a week for provider reports (p <0.001). Despite growth in the use of electronic methods to enhance Notifiable Disease reporting, there still exists much room for improvement.
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Completeness and timeliness of Notifiable Disease reporting: a comparison of laboratory and provider reports submitted to a large county health department
BMC medical informatics and decision making, 2017Co-Authors: Brian E. Dixon, Patrick T. S. Lai, Zuoyi Zhang, Debra Revere, P. Joseph Gibson, Uzay Kirbiyik, Jennifer L Williams, Rebecca A Hills, Shaun J. GrannisAbstract:Most public health agencies expect reporting of Diseases to be initiated by hospital, laboratory or clinic staff even though so-called passive approaches are known to be burdensome for reporters and produce incomplete as well as delayed reports, which can hinder assessment of Disease and delay recognition of outbreaks. In this study, we analyze patterns of reporting as well as data completeness and timeliness for traditional, passive reporting of Notifiable Disease by two distinct sources of information: hospital and clinic staff versus clinical laboratory staff. Reports were submitted via fax machine as well as electronic health information exchange interfaces. Data were extracted from all submitted Notifiable Disease reports for seven representative Diseases. Reporting rates are the proportion of known cases having a corresponding case report from a provider, a faxed laboratory report or an electronic laboratory report. Reporting rates were stratified by Disease and compared using McNemar’s test. For key data fields on the reports, completeness was calculated as the proportion of non-blank fields. Timeliness was measured as the difference between date of laboratory confirmed diagnosis and the date the report was received by the health department. Differences in completeness and timeliness by data source were evaluated using a generalized linear model with Pearson’s goodness of fit statistic. We assessed 13,269 reports representing 9034 unique cases. Reporting rates varied by Disease with overall rates of 19.1% for providers and 84.4% for laboratories (p
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Evaluating Notifiable Disease Reporting by Providers: Analysis of Data Element Completeness
Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 2014Co-Authors: Patrick T. S. Lai, Kavya R. Gujjula, Shaun J. Grannis, Brian E. DixonAbstract:Provider reporting of Notifiable Disease is a critical component of public health assessment and surveillance. To efficiently and effectively assess and respond to Disease, health departments require complete data from providers. To better understand the level of completeness in provider reporting, we examined key data elements across 7 Notifiable Diseases reported to a local health department. We found that some fields are incomplete more than half the time and provider demographics are frequently missing. We discuss the implications on public health workflow and opportunities for improvement.
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clinical versus public health perceptions of Notifiable Disease reporting burden
Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 2014Co-Authors: Debra Revere, Shaun J. Grannis, Rebecca A Hills, Brian E. DixonAbstract:Public health surveillance depends, in part, on provider-submitted reports of communicable Diseases. The 'Improving Population Health through Enhanced Targeted Regional Decision Support' research project is implementing a novel technology to pre-populate report forms in order to streamline reporting workflows, lower reporting barriers, increase data completeness, improve timeliness and, ultimately, provide access to higher quality surveillance data for public health organizations. We will share preliminary evaluation results regarding barriers and facilitators to implementation and utilization of the intervention; and differences in perceptions regarding reporting burden on clinical and public health workers.
Wender Lin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Evaluation of the National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System in Taiwan: an example of varicella reporting.
Vaccine, 2006Co-Authors: Hsiu-fen Tan, Chen-kang Chang, Hung-fu Tseng, Wender LinAbstract:Despite the mandatory reporting by laws, the incompleteness of Notifiable infectious Disease reporting is well-documented in many countries for various Diseases. The purpose of this study is to investigate the completeness of varicella reporting in Taiwan. Annual reports of National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System in Taiwan were compared to the annual outpatient claims of National Health Insurance (NHI) in the years of 2000, 2001, and 2002. Age and area-specific reporting rates of varicella were calculated by dividing the respective reported cases by the number of incidence cases. The reporting rate was the highest in aged 0 year in all years, followed by the 20-29- and 30-39-year groups. The reporting rate in each age group increased gradually during the study period. Other than Taipei City, the reporting rates in all regions were below 9% during this period. This study suggested that varicella reporting rate is very low in Taiwan. In addition, the reporting rates were inconsistent in 2000-2002, making the estimation of prevalence and vaccine efficacy using data from the National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System almost impossible. This study indicated that the physicians in Taiwan should improve their knowledge and attitude toward Notifiable infectious Diseases.
