Discussion Prompts

Prompts for the facilitated discussion following the challenges overview and rapid presentations.

Reporting delays

• What are the most common sources of reporting delay in your jurisdiction?
• How long are typical delays for your main surveillance streams?
• Have you seen delays change over time (e.g. during outbreaks, holiday periods, system changes)?
• How do you currently handle recent incomplete data when briefing leadership?

Data revisions

• How often do your data get revised after initial release?
• What causes revisions in your systems (deduplication, reclassification, date corrections)?
• Have you experienced large retrospective corrections that affected interpretation?

Site drop-in and drop-out

• Do you have sites that report intermittently?
• How do you handle new sites joining or existing sites dropping out of reporting?
• Does this vary between surveillance streams?

Other data quality issues

• What data quality issues most affect your ability to interpret recent trends?
• How do you handle missing dates or strata variables?
• Are there format or system compatibility issues that create apparent delays?

Cross-cutting

• Which of these challenges is the biggest barrier to timely analysis in your setting?
• Are there challenges you face that we have not covered?
• What would be most useful to you from this effort?