Evaluating Completeness of Foodborne Outbreak Reporting in the United States, 1998-2019.

ABSTRACT: Public health agencies routinely collect time-referenced records to describe and compare foodborne outbreak characteristics. Few studies provide comprehensive metadata to inform researchers of data limitations prior to conducting statistical modeling. We described the completeness of 103 variables for 22,792 outbreaks publicly reported by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (US CDC’s) electronic Foodborne Outbreak Reporting System (eFORS) and National Outbreak Reporting System (NORS). We compared monthly trends of completeness during eFORS (1998−2008) and NORS (2009−2019) reporting periods using segmented time series analyses adjusted for seasonality. We quantified the overall, annual, and monthly completeness as the percentage of outbreaks with blank records per

SUBMITTER: Zhang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8910621 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature