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Arne Janssens¹, Bert Vaes¹, Gijs Van Pottelbergh¹

¹Academic Centre of General Practice, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, KU Leuven, Kapucijnenvoer 35, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium.

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|June 14, 2024

Summary

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Primary care registries effectively estimate spatial disease trends, even with sampling challenges. Adjusting for reporting variations enhances the reliability of spatial disease risk modeling.

Keywords:

Bayesian spatial modeling Lower respiratory tract infections Passive sentinel surveillance Primary care registry data Simulation study Spatial epidemiology

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Area of Science:

Public Health Surveillance
Spatial Epidemiology
Health Informatics

Background:

Spatial modeling using primary care data shows potential for public health surveillance.
Challenges like uneven sampling and reporting variations can impact statistical inference in spatial models.

Purpose of the Study:

To assess the impact of spatial sampling imbalance and practice-specific reporting variations on spatial trend estimation.
To evaluate the utility of primary care registries for spatial disease risk modeling under challenging conditions.

Main Methods:

Utilized lower respiratory tract infection data from the INTEGO registry.
Employed a logistic model with patient characteristics, a municipality-level spatial random effect, and a practice-level unstructured random effect.
Conducted a case and simulation study to analyze the effects of sampling and reporting variations.

Main Results:

The spatial model demonstrated good performance despite spatial imbalance and practice-specific reporting variations.
Model performance improved with greater spatial sample balance and reduced practice-specific reporting variation.
The diversity of patient locations within practice populations was found to be significant.

Conclusions:

Primary care registries are valuable for spatial trend estimation when corrected for reporting efforts.
Accounting for variations in reporting and sampling is crucial for accurate spatial disease risk assessment.
The spatial distribution of patients within practices is an important factor in reliable spatial modeling.