{"id":10105,"date":"2021-05-28T10:30:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T17:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=10105"},"modified":"2021-06-01T10:31:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T17:31:36","slug":"evaluating-data-types-a-guide-for-decision-makers-using-data-to-understand-the-extent-and-spread-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/28\/evaluating-data-types-a-guide-for-decision-makers-using-data-to-understand-the-extent-and-spread-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Evaluating Data Types: A Guide for Decision Makers Using Data to Understand the Extent and Spread of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A rapid consultation produced by a panel of experts from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine identified 7 data types used as indicators for evaluating local course of COVID-19 and 5 criteria to assess the reliability and validity of each data type. The 7 data types include confirmed cases, hospitalizations, emergency department visits, confirmed COVID-19 deaths, excess deaths, positive test fraction, and prevalence surveys. The 5 criteria include representativeness, bias, sampling error, lag time, and spatial differences in measurement. The authors encourage policy makers to consider small case counts, systematic over- and under-estimation, disproportionate impact against certain populations, importance of qualitative data, and transparency while analyzing the different data types.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">National Academies Press. (May 28, 2021). Evaluating Data Types: A Guide for Decision Makers Using Data to Understand the Extent and Spread of COVID-19. National Academies Press. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.17226\/25826\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.17226\/25826<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rapid consultation produced by a panel of experts from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine identified 7 data types used as indicators for evaluating local course of COVID-19 and 5 criteria to assess the reliability and validity of each data type. The 7 data types include confirmed cases, hospitalizations, emergency department visits,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/28\/evaluating-data-types-a-guide-for-decision-makers-using-data-to-understand-the-extent-and-spread-of-covid-19\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-10105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-public-health","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10106,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10105\/revisions\/10106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10105"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=10105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}