L Fonteneau1, N Le Meur2, A Cohen-Akenine3, C Pessel4, C Brouard5, F Delon6, G Desjeux7, J Durand5, J Kirchgesner8, N Lapidus9, M Lemaitre3, S Tala10, A Thiébaut11, L Watier11, J Rudant12, L Guillon-Grammatico13. 1. REDSIAM, groupe de travail infectieux, France; Santé publique France, direction des maladies infectieuses, 12, rue du Val-d'Osne, 94415 Saint-Maurice cedex, France. Electronic address: laure.fonteneau@santepubliquefrance.fr. 2. EHESP, 35043 Rennes, France. 3. REDSIAM, groupe de travail infectieux, France; Haute Autorité de santé, Saint-Denis la Plaine, France. 4. Haute Autorité de santé, Saint-Denis la Plaine, France. 5. REDSIAM, groupe de travail infectieux, France; Santé publique France, direction des maladies infectieuses, 12, rue du Val-d'Osne, 94415 Saint-Maurice cedex, France. 6. REDSIAM, groupe de travail infectieux, France; Centre d'épidémiologie et de santé publique des armées, Marseille, France. 7. REDSIAM, groupe de travail infectieux, France; Caisse nationale militaire de sécurité sociale, Toulon, France. 8. REDSIAM, groupe de travail infectieux, France; Inserm, unité mixte de recherche en santé 1136, institut Pierre-Louis d'épidémiologie et de santé publique, Paris, France. 9. REDSIAM, groupe de travail infectieux, France; Département de santé publique, Inserm, institut Pierre-Louis d'épidémiologie et de santé publique (IPLESP UMRS 1136), Sorbonne universités, UPMC université Paris 06, hôpital Saint-Antoine, AP-HP, 75000 Paris, France. 10. REDSIAM, groupe de travail infectieux, France; Département études sur l'offre de soins, direction de la stratégie, des études et des statistiques, Caisse nationale d'assurance maladie des travailleurs salariés, 26-50, avenue du Professeur-André-Lemierre, 75986 Paris cedex 20, France. 11. REDSIAM, groupe de travail infectieux, France; Biostatistics, biomathematics, pharmacoepidemiology and infectious diseases (B2PHI), Inserm, UVSQ, Institut Pasteur, université Paris-Saclay, 75000 Paris, France. 12. REDSIAM, groupe de travail infectieux, France; Département études de santé publique, direction de la stratégie, des études et des statistiques, Caisse nationale d'assurance maladie des travailleurs salariés, 26-50, avenue du Professeur-André-Lemierre, 75986 Paris cedex 20, France. 13. REDSIAM, groupe de travail infectieux, France; Service d'information médicale d'épidémiologie et d'économie de la santé, unité régionale d'épidémiologie hospitalière (UREH), université F.-abelais, CHRU de Tours, 37000 Tours, France.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The public health burden resulting from infectious diseases requires efforts in surveillance and evaluation of health care. The use of administrative health databases (AHD) and in particular the French national health insurance database (SNIIRAM) is an opportunity to improve knowledge in this field. The SNIIRAM data network (REDSIAM) workshop dedicated to infectious diseases conducted a narrative literature review of studies using French AHD. From the results, benefits and limits of these new tools in the field of infectious diseases are presented. METHODS: Publications identified by the members of the workgroup were collected using an analytical framework that documented the pathology of interest, the aim of the study, the goal of the developed algorithm, the kind of data, the study period, and the presence of an evaluation or a discussion of the performance of the performed algorithm. RESULTS: Fifty-five articles were identified. A majority focused on the field of vaccination coverage and joint infections. Excluding vaccine coverage field, the aim of 28 studies was epidemiological surveillance. Twenty-six studies used hospital databases exclusively, 18 used ambulatory databases exclusively and 4 used both. Validation or discussion of the performed algorithm was present in 18 studies. CONCLUSIONS: The literature review confirmed the interest of the French AHD in the infectious diseases field. The AHD are additional tools of the existing surveillance systems and their use will probably be more frequent in the coming years given their advantage and reliability. However, incoming users need to be assisted. Thus, the workgroup will contribute to a reasonable use of AHD and support future developments.
BACKGROUND: The public health burden resulting from infectious diseases requires efforts in surveillance and evaluation of health care. The use of administrative health databases (AHD) and in particular the French national health insurance database (SNIIRAM) is an opportunity to improve knowledge in this field. The SNIIRAM data network (REDSIAM) workshop dedicated to infectious diseases conducted a narrative literature review of studies using French AHD. From the results, benefits and limits of these new tools in the field of infectious diseases are presented. METHODS: Publications identified by the members of the workgroup were collected using an analytical framework that documented the pathology of interest, the aim of the study, the goal of the developed algorithm, the kind of data, the study period, and the presence of an evaluation or a discussion of the performance of the performed algorithm. RESULTS: Fifty-five articles were identified. A majority focused on the field of vaccination coverage and joint infections. Excluding vaccine coverage field, the aim of 28 studies was epidemiological surveillance. Twenty-six studies used hospital databases exclusively, 18 used ambulatory databases exclusively and 4 used both. Validation or discussion of the performed algorithm was present in 18 studies. CONCLUSIONS: The literature review confirmed the interest of the French AHD in the infectious diseases field. The AHD are additional tools of the existing surveillance systems and their use will probably be more frequent in the coming years given their advantage and reliability. However, incoming users need to be assisted. Thus, the workgroup will contribute to a reasonable use of AHD and support future developments.
Authors: A Septfons; T Goronflot; B Jaulhac; V Roussel; S De Martino; S Guerreiro; T Launay; L Fournier; H De Valk; J Figoni; T Blanchon; E Couturier Journal: Euro Surveill Date: 2019-03