Importance of Continued Data Quality Assessment of Syndromic Production Data

Introduction Once a facility meets data quality standards and is approved for production, an assumption is made that the quality of data received remains at the same level. When looking at production data quality reports from various states generated using a SAS data quality program, a need for production data quality assessment was identified. By implementing a periodic data quality update on all production facilities, data quality has improved for production data as a whole and for individual facility data. Through this activity several root causes of data quality degradation have been identified, allowing processes to be implemented in order to mitigate impact on data quality.