Short-term Impact of Changes in Public Health Information Systems on Sexually Transmitted Infection Surveillance Data Quality.

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Department of Public Administration and Policy, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany, State University of New York.

Published: May 2025


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Jurisdictional health departments use public health information systems (PHIS) to maintain and transmit their surveillance data for national surveillance. We investigated if changes to a PHIS had an impact on sexually transmitted infection case-based surveillance data and document short-term issues that resulted in decreased data quality.

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