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6. DataDefinitions
Core Data Elements - The core data elements include date of birth, age, sex, race, ethnicity, state, the patient’s county of residence (or other appropriate geographic locator including city or zip code), date of specimen collection, health care provider identifier, health care provider type/system type, laboratory identification number, specimen site (anatomical site from which the lab specimen was collected or urine from patient), disease code, laboratory test type, laboratory test result and actual reasons for testing a particular patient (to measure adherence to screening criteria). Data - Factual information, especially information organized for analysis. Project Definition - Core data elements as outlined on the data collection request form. Performance standard requires 90% completion of the core data elements. If core data elements are missing, provider should be contacted to provide the necessary information.Chlamydia testing surveillance data are used to:
- Identify, treat and counsel infected clients;
- Ascertain prevalence in testing sites/populations;
- Determine effectiveness of infertility prevention programs;
- Establish and re-examine screening criteria;
- Provide a quality assurance indicator;
- Justify funding.
Data review should:
- Be used to create site quarterly reports provided by the state alliance. These reports should be useful to specimen submitters to monitor and improve their services. Information that should be included is (but is not limited to):- Test requisition form data completion rates; positivity rates;
- Unsatisfactory test result rate; reasons for unsatisfactory results
- Demographic elements of clients tested;
- Percent of total for each demographic element.
- List totals of specimens meeting each of the screening criteria; particularly note number of specimens without screening criteria listed on their test requisitions.
State Data Collection Forms
Data Collection Request Form- Every specimen must have an accompanying Chlamydia/Gonorrhea Request Form. Bar code label on the Request Form must be straight for proper scanning.
- The following data are recommended by Region V on the laboratory specimen request forms:
- unique specimen identification number
- state where specimen was tested
- encrypted client identification number
- county where client resides
- zip code of client’s residence
- client’s birthday or age at date of visit
- client’s gender
- client’s self-reported race
- client’s self-reported ethnicity
- type of facility where specimen was collected
- name or code of facility where specimen was collected
- name or code of laboratory where specimen was tested
- specimen collection date
- type of chlamydia screening test
- type of gonorrhea screening test
- site of specimen collection
- reason for test
- States may also have special data requirements.
