The challenges of data usage for the United States' COVID-19 response.
Coronavirus
Decision making
Public health data
Journal
International journal of information management
ISSN: 0268-4012
Titre abrégé: Int J Inf Manage
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101520272
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Aug 2021
Aug 2021
Historique:
received:
09
11
2020
revised:
29
03
2021
accepted:
29
03
2021
pubmed:
8
4
2021
medline:
8
4
2021
entrez:
7
4
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
During the coronavirus pandemic, policy makers need to interpret available public health data to make decisions affecting public health. However, the United States' coronavirus response faced data gaps, inadequate and inconsistent definitions of data across different governmental jurisdictions, ambiguous timing in reporting, problems in accessing data, and changing interpretations from scientific institutions. These present numerous problems for the decision makers relying on this information. This paper documents some of the data pitfalls in coronavirus public health data reporting, as identified by the authors in the course of supporting data management for New England's coronavirus response. We provide recommendations for individuals to collect data more effectively during emergency situations such as a COVID-19 surge, as well as recommendations for institutions to provide more meaningful data for various users to access. Through this, we hope to motivate action to avoid data pitfalls during public health responses in the future.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33824545
doi: 10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2021.102352
pii: S0268-4012(21)00045-1
pmc: PMC8017563
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
102352Informations de copyright
© 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare no competing interests.
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