UTILIZING A CAPTURE-RECAPTURE STRATEGY TO ACCELERATE INFECTIOUS DISEASE SURVEILLANCE.

ABSTRACT: Monitoring key elements of disease dynamics (e.g., prevalence, case counts) is of great importance in infectious disease prevention and control, as emphasized during the COVID-19 pandemic. To facilitate this effort, we propose a new capture-recapture (CRC) analysis strategy that adjusts for misclassification stemming from the use of easily administered but imperfect diagnostic test kits, such as rapid antigen test-kits or saliva tests. Our method is based on a recently proposed "anchor stream" design, whereby an existing voluntary surveillance data stream is augmented by a smaller and judiciously drawn random sample. It incorporates manufacturer-specified sensitivity and specificity parameters to account for imperfect diagnostic results in one or both data streams. For inference to accompa

SUBMITTER: Ge L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12273866 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature