A hierarchical model for analyzing multisite individual‐level disease surveillance data from multiple systems

Yuzi Zhang, Howard H. Chang, Qu Cheng, Philip A. Collender, Ting Li, Jinge He and Justin V. Remais

Biometrics, 2023, vol. 79, issue 2, 1507-1519

Abstract: Passive surveillance systems are widely used to monitor diseases occurrence over wide spatial areas due to their cost‐effectiveness and integration into broadly distributed healthcare systems. However, such systems are generally associated with imperfect ascertainment of disease cases and with heterogeneous capture probabilities arising from factors such as differential access to care. Augmenting passive surveillance systems with other surveillance efforts provides a way to estimate the true number of incident cases. We develop a hierarchical modeling framework for analyzing data from multiple surveillance systems that allows for individual‐level covariate‐dependent heterogeneous capture probabilities, and borrows information across surveillance sites to improve estimation of the true number of incident cases. Inference is carried out via a two‐stage Bayesian procedure. Simulation studies illustrated superior performance of the proposed approach with respect to bias, root mean square error, and coverage compared to a model that does not borrow information across sites. We applied the proposed model to data from three surveillance systems reporting pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) cases in a major center of ongoing transmission in China. The analysis yielded bias‐corrected estimates of PTB cases from the passive system and led to the identification of risk factors associated with PTB rates, as well as factors influencing the operating characteristics of the implemented surveillance systems.

Date: 2023
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