%0 Journal Article
%@ 2369-2960
%I JMIR Publications
%V 1
%N 2
%P e15
%T The US National Tuberculosis Surveillance System: A Descriptive Assessment of the Completeness and Consistency of Data Reported from 2008 to 2012
%A Yelk Woodruff,Rachel S
%A Pratt,Robert H
%A Armstrong,Lori R
%+ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Division of Tuberculosis Elimination, 1600 Clifton Road NE, Mailstop E10, Atlanta, GA, 30333, United States, 1 404 639 6018, zex5@cdc.gov
%K public health surveillance
%K disease notification
%K information systems
%K data cleaning
%K quality assurance
%D 2015
%7 15.10.2015
%9 Original Paper
%J JMIR Public Health Surveill
%G English
%X Background: In 2009, the Tuberculosis (TB) Information Management System transitioned into the National TB Surveillance System to allow use of 4 different types of electronic reporting schemes: state-built, commercial, and 2 schemes developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Simultaneously, the reporting form was revised to include additional data fields. Objective: Describe data completeness for the years 2008-2012 and determine the impact of surveillance changes. Methods: Data were categorized into subgroups and assessed for completeness (eg, the percentage of patients dead at diagnosis who had a date of death reported) and consistency (eg, the percentage of patients alive at diagnosis who erroneously had a date of death reported). Reporting jurisdictions were grouped to examine differences by reporting scheme. Results: Each year less than 1% of reported cases had missing information for country of origin, race, or ethnicity. Patients reported as dead at diagnosis had death date (a new data field) missing for 3.6% in 2009 and 4.4% in 2012. From 2010 to 2012, 313 cases (1%) reported as alive at diagnosis had a death date and all of these were reported through state-built or commercial systems. The completeness of reporting for guardian country of birth for pediatric patients (a new data field) ranged from 84% in 2009 to 88.2% in 2011. Conclusions: Despite major changes, completeness has remained high for most data elements in TB surveillance. However, some data fields introduced in 2009 remain incomplete; continued training is needed to improve national TB surveillance data. 
%M 27227133
%R 10.2196/publichealth.4991
%U http://publichealth.jmir.org/2015/2/e15/
%U https://doi.org/10.2196/publichealth.4991
%U http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27227133