Enhancing Lyme Disease Surveillance by Using Administrative Claims Data, Tennessee, USA

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Clayton, Joshua L. ; Jones, Stephen G. ; Dunn, John R. ; Schaffner, William ; Jones, Timothy F.
• Description:
  Lyme disease is underreported in the United States. We used insurance administrative claims data to determine the value of such data in enhancing case ascertainment in Tennessee during January 2011-June 2013. Although we identified ≈20% more cases of Lyme disease (5/year), the method was resource intensive and not sustainable in this low-incidence state.
• Subjects:
  Communicable Diseases, Emerging Diagnosis-Related Groups Epidemiologic Studies Humans Insurance Claim Reporting Lyme Disease Public Health Surveillance Quality Assurance, Health Care
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 21(9):1632-1634
• Pubmed ID:
  26291336
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4550145
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Name as Subject:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Emerging Infections Program. ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Emerging Infections Program.
• Place as Subject:
  Tennessee
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  21
• Issue:
  9
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:6bf5893bd61c29dbc6bb503d24c1160cfab4b8d5aa782e4769329f9da301e174
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/33155/cdc_33155_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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