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  • Epidemiology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Public Health Surveillance

Background:

  • Researchers utilize diverse data sources for infectious disease epidemiology, but their strengths and limitations are not well-understood.
  • Understanding data source reliability is crucial for policymakers interpreting epidemiological findings.

Approach:

  • Compared infectious disease reporting for measles, mumps, and varicella across four data sources: Optum (billing claims), HealthMap (news), MMWR (government reports), and NNDSS (case surveillance).
  • Analyzed yearly national and state-level case counts and disease clusters from 2013-2017.

Key Points:

  • Drastic differences in reported infectious disease incidence were observed across the four data sources.
  • Optum billing claims data yielded substantially higher, implausible case counts for all three diseases compared to other sources.
  • Variations in state-level reporting were identified across all four data sources, despite some concordance in case counts and clusters.

Conclusions:

  • Data source limitations must be considered when characterizing infectious disease epidemiology.
  • Health insurance billing claims data may be unsuitable for infectious disease epidemiological research due to potential inaccuracies.