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- Title
Electronic Health Record--Based Algorithm for Monitoring Respiratory Virus--Like Illness.
- Authors
Cocoros, Noelle M.; Eberhardt, Karen; Vu-Thuy Nguyen; Brown, Catherine M.; DeMaria, Alfred; Madoff, Lawrence C.; Randall, Liisa M.; Klompas, Michael
- Abstract
Viral respiratory illness surveillance has traditionally focused on single pathogens (e.g., influenza) and required fever to identify influenza-like illness (ILI). We developed an automated system applying both laboratory test and syndrome criteria to electronic health records from 3 practice groups in Massachusetts, USA, to monitor trends in respiratory viral--like illness (RAVIOLI) across multiple pathogens. We identified RAVIOLI syndrome using diagnosis codes associated with respiratory viral testing or positive respiratory viral assays or with fever. After retrospectively applying RAVIOLI criteria to electronic health records, we observed annual winter peaks during 2015-2019, predominantly caused by influenza, followed by cyclic peaks corresponding to SARS-CoV-2 surges during 2020--2024, spikes in RSV in mid-2021 and late 2022, and recrudescent influenza in late 2022 and 2023. RAVIOLI rates were higher and fluctuations more pronounced compared with traditional ILI surveillance. RAVIOLI broadens the scope, granularity, sensitivity, and specificity of respiratory viral illness surveillance compared with traditional ILI surveillance.
- Publication
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2024, Vol 30, Issue 6, p1096
- ISSN
1080-6040
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3201/eid3006.230473