Enhancing disease surveillance with novel data streams: challenges and opportunities
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Althouse, Benjamin M
Scarpino, Samuel V
Meyers, Lauren Ancel
Ayers, John W
Bargsten, Marisa
Baumbach, Joan
Castro, Lauren
Clapham, Hannah
Cummings, Derek AT
Del Valle, Sara
Eubank, Stephen
Fairchild, Geoffrey
Finelli, Lyn
Generous, Nicholas
George, Dylan
Harper, David R
Hébert-Dufresne, Laurent
Johansson, Michael A
Konty, Kevin
Milinovich, Gabriel
Miller, Joseph D
Nsoesie, Elaine O
Olson, Donald R
Paul, Michael
Polgreen, Philip M
Priedhorsky, Reid
Read, Jonathan M
Rodríguez-Barraquer, Isabel
Smith, Derek J
Stefansen, Christian
Swerdlow, David L
Thompson, Deborah
Vespignani, Alessandro
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Althouse, B. M., S. V. Scarpino, L. A. Meyers, J. W. Ayers, M. Bargsten, J. Baumbach, J. S. Brownstein, et al. 2016. “Enhancing disease surveillance with novel data streams: challenges and opportunities.” EPJ data science 4 (1): 17. doi:10.1140/epjds/s13688-015-0054-0. http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-015-0054-0.Abstract
Novel data streams (NDS), such as web search data or social media updates, hold promise for enhancing the capabilities of public health surveillance. In this paper, we outline a conceptual framework for integrating NDS into current public health surveillance. Our approach focuses on two key questions: What are the opportunities for using NDS and what are the minimal tests of validity and utility that must be applied when using NDS? Identifying these opportunities will necessitate the involvement of public health authorities and an appreciation of the diversity of objectives and scales across agencies at different levels (local, state, national, international). We present the case that clearly articulating surveillance objectives and systematically evaluating NDS and comparing the performance of NDS to existing surveillance data and alternative NDS data is critical and has not sufficiently been addressed in many applications of NDS currently in the literature.Other Sources
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