CO Poisoning surveillance data MMWR Surveillance Summaries article
Author working group conference minutes
Monday 21 April 2014, Noon EST
In Attendance: Steve Macdonald, Kanta Sircar, Kristen Jarman, Carol Braun, Martha Stanbury, Henry Anderson,
Jay Schauben
1. Roll Call (Please email Kanta your updated contact information)
2. Call notes from April 14
3. Tables 1 (NPDS) and 6 (bar chart by month)
a. Additional year – 2009 – included in the table. The 2011 MMWR CO article includes 2009, but this
publication aggregated years and includes exposure only, so 2009 is added here to be consistent
with other data and present only cases
i. Including 2009 may open up the need to explain that the 2009 data is different because it
does not include exposure only cases
b. Surprising: more missing in the age categorizations because the NPDS dataset categories do not line
up with the state categories, so when we categorize that creates missing
i. Can we address this in the discussions? By saying that most of the people in the unknown
age categories are adults – with the help of Jay
ii. Age groupings from 2011 MMWR article- which also includes rates
iii. Is there a reason that the age groupings would be useful for programmatic purposes?
iv. Revisit age categorizations in table 2 and 3 next time
c. In NPDS pregnant females are their own gender- these are included in the table as female
d. Next version – add in rates
e. Table 6
i. Why the slight spike in the month of July? Maybe summer storms and hurricane season
ii. Much lower cases in the summer and higher in the winter - trend is obvious
4. States with table 2 and 3 data updates: please send those to Kanta
5. Schedule (tentative) for the next weeks:
a. Apr 28: Tables 2 and 3
b. May 5: Table 9 (data from Tier 2 states)
c. May 12: Tables 7 and 8 (Sensitivity and PPV)
d. May 19: Manuscripts
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