Impact of Primary Health Care Data Quality on Infectious Disease Surveillance in Brazil: Case Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The increase in emerging and re-emerging infectious disease outbreaks underscores the need for robust early warning systems (EWSs) to guide mitigation and response measures. Administrative health care databases provide valuable epidemiological insights without imposing additional burdens on health services. However, these datasets are primarily collected for operational use, making data quality assessment essential to ensure an accurate interpretation of epidemiological analysis. This study focuses on the development and implementation of a data quality index (DQI) for surveillance integrated into an EWS for influenza-like illness (ILI) outbreaks using Brazil's a nationwide Primary Health Care (PHC) dataset.

Objective

We aimed to evaluate the impact of data comple

SUBMITTER: Florentino PTV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11870279 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature