Improving Data Quality in Pesticide Illness Surveillance (Revised)

摘要

In September 2000 Washington State Department of Health (DOH) was awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to enhance the pesticide surveillance system. The specific aim of this project was to increase the value of the information generated by the Pesticide Incident Monitoring Surveillance system (PIMS) for designing interventions by: evaluating and improving the quality of data collected by PIMS$ improving the functionality and compatibility of the PIMS database management system$ and enhancing the analysis of PIMS data and expanding the dissemination of program and policy relevant information derived from PIMS data. These efforts were designed to address the surveillance needs identified by NIOSH and expert groups organized by NIOSH (NIOSH, 2000a$ NIOSH 2000b) and develop methods and models to help the State of Washington and other states with occupational pesticide illness surveillance to develop the recommended comprehensive activities for state-based surveillance systems (CDC/NIOSH, 1995). This report summarizes the projects and major results of this effort.