Use of the CUSUM and Shewhart control chart methods to identify changes of public health significance using childhood blood lead surveillance data
| Autor: | Adrienne S. Ettinger, Carlos Mercado, Timothy Dignam, W. Dana Flanders, Stella O. Chuke, James M. Hodge |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Global and Planetary Change
medicine.medical_specialty Surveillance data medicine.diagnostic_test Epidemiology business.industry Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Public health Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health CUSUM Pollution Article Environmental health medicine Blood lead level Control chart Lead (electronics) business Healthcare providers |
| Zdroj: | Environ Epidemiol |
| ISSN: | 2474-7882 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/ee9.0000000000000090 |
| Popis: | BACKGROUND: Local, state, and national childhood blood lead surveillance is based on healthcare providers and clinical laboratories reporting test results to public health departments. Increased interest in detecting blood lead level (BLL) patterns and changes of potential public health significance in a timely manner has highlighted the need for surveillance systems to rapidly detect and investigate these events. OBJECTIVE: Decrease the time to detect changes in surveillance patterns by using an alerting algorithm developed and assessed through historical child blood lead surveillance data analysis. METHODS: We applied geographic and temporal data-aggregation strategies on childhood blood lead surveillance data and developed a novel alerting algorithm. The alerting algorithm employed a modified cumulative summary/Shewhart algorithm, initially applied on 113 months of data from two jurisdictions with a known increase in the proportion of children 5 µg/dl. RESULTS: Alert signals retrospectively identified time periods in two jurisdictions where a known change in the proportion of children =5 µg/dl occurred. Additionally, we identified alert signals among six of the 18 (33%) randomly selected counties assessed where no previously known or suspected pattern changes existed. CONCLUSION: The modified cumulative summary/Shewhart algorithm provides a framework for enhanced blood lead surveillance by identifying changes in the proportion of children with BLLs >=5 µg/dl. The algorithm has the potential to alert public health officials to changes requiring further important public health investigation. |
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