Online J Public Health InformOnline J Public Health InformOJPHIOnline Journal of Public Health Informatics1947-2579University of Illinois at Chicago Library6087914ojphi-10-e7310.5210/ojphi.v10i1.8558ISDS 2018 Conference AbstractsHow do we present messy syndromic surveillance data to public
health’s partners?AtrubinDavid*1ErgasRosa2Kite-PowellAaron3Florida Department of
Health, Tampa, FL,
USA; Massachusetts Department of Public
Health, Boston, MA, USA;Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta,
GA, USADavid Atrubin E-mail: david.atrubin@flhealth.gov30520182018101e73ISDS Annual Conference Proceedings 2018. This is an Open Access
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Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), permitting
all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium,
provided the original work is properly cited.Keywords data disclaimersdata sharingvariability within the datasyndromic surveillanceemergency department dataObjective
To discuss data disclaimers and caveats that are fundamental to sharing syndromic
surveillance (SyS) data
Introduction
With increasing awareness of SyS systems, there has been a concurrent increase in
demand for data from these systems – both from researchers and from the
media. The opioid epidemic occurring in the United States has forced the SyS
community to determine the best way to present these data in a way that makes sense
while acknowledging the incompleteness and variability in how the data are collected
at the hospital level and queried at the user level. While significant time and
effort are spent discussing optimal queries, responsible presentation of the data -
including data disclaimers - is rarely discussed within the SyS community.