Timeliness, reporting and response burden as well as the sensitivity and PPV of the surveillance system were considered.
Qualitative data regarding pre-post provider perceptions of report completeness, accuracy, and timeliness, reporting burden, data quality, benefits, utility, adoption, utilization and impact on reporting workflow will be collected using semi-structured interviews and open-ended survey items.
We used standard definitions to compare timeliness of reporting and timeliness to review of the Clinical Network and SPARCS.
In the present study, both variables are jointly analyzed to assess the relationship between timeliness and reported information.
Finally, to assess the effect of disease severity on timeliness and reported information, HealthMap's disease severity scale of 1 to 5 was used.
Figure 2 shows the relationship between timeliness and reported information; the time lag was longest when the initial formal report provided more information (median lag = 6.78 days, p < 0.0001).
Timeliness of reporting, evaluation, and feedback are invaluable to allow for appropriate assessment of the outcome of the remediation plan.
We are not aware, however, of a paper that investigates the relevance and reliability trade-off with reference to timeliness of reporting, as we do in this paper.
Sources of patterns of care information often have limitations in completeness, quality, timeliness of reporting, and relevance to the larger population.
