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Value
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Syntax
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Why needed and further expanation
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Case information
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Case ID
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Alpha-numeric value
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Assigned by OCT
to provided unique identifier for each case
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Personal
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Home location
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X,Y
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Might enable identification of source, could be longitude/latitude
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Administrative Area
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Alpha-numeric value
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Administration area that home falls within, to enable aggregation to higher spatial
geometries and patient anonymisation
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Date of Birth
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DD/MM/YYYY
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Descriptive epidemiology
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Age
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Numeric (3 digits)
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Descriptive epidemiology
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Sex
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0=Male, 1=Female
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Descriptive epidemiology
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Date of Onset
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DD/MM/YYYY
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Descriptive epidemiology
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Hospital care
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Date of Hospitalisation
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DD/MM/YYYY
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Or not available (NA) if not yet hospitalised
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Date of Discharge from Hospital
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DD/MM/YYYY
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Or NA if not
yet discharged
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Location of Hospital
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X,Y
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Useful contextual information if further case interviews are needed, might need 'admin
area' information too
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Pneumonia History
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Clinical
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+1, -1, 0, NA
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Results will be positive (1), negative (-1), equivocal (0) or NA if not yet performed/results
pending.
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X-ray
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+1, -1, 0, NA
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Results will be positive (1), negative (-1) or equivocal (0) or NA if not yet performed/results
pending.
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Microbiology history
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Urinary antigen
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+1, -1, 0, NA
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Results will be positive (1), negative (-1) or equivocal (0) or NA if not yet performed/results
pending.
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Culture
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+1, -1, 0, NA
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Results will be positive (1), negative (-1) or equivocal (0) or NA if not yet performed/results
pending.
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Serology
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Titre score, NA
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Could be binned for interpretation (i.e. <64, 1:64, 1:128, 1:256,
>512) or NA if not
yet performed/results pending
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PCR
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+1, -1, 0, NA
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Results will be positive (1), negative (-1) or equivocal (0) or NA if not yet performed/results
pending.
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Patient Status
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At notification
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0=Dead, 1=alive
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Descriptive epidemiology
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at 30 days post notification
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0=Dead, 1=alive
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Descriptive epidemiology
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Interview history
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Numeric (1 digit)
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i.e. 0=Not interviewed, 1 = interviewed by proxy, 2= interviewed
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Travel history
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Location
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X,Y
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Might enable identification of source, and approximate time of day might also be
helpful (i.e. am, pm, night-time etc)
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Administrative Area
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Alpha-numeric value
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Administration area that location falls within, to enable aggregation to higher spatial
geometries and patient anonymisation
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Comments
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Free text
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Basic contextual and relevant information about patient not captured above
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Environmental information
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Source ID
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Alpha-numeric value
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Assigned by Outbreak
Control Team to provided unique identifier for each case
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Source location
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X,Y
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i.e. could be longitude/latitude
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Administrative Area
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Alpha-numeric value
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Administration area that source falls within, to enable aggregation to higher spatial
geometries and site anonymisation
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Source type
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Free text
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Description of type of source (cooling tower, spa pool etc)
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Owner of source
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Free text
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Official registered owner of source
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Date that samples were last taken
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DD/MM/YYYY
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Results of samples
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+1, -1, 0, NA
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Results will be positive (1), negative (-1) or equivocal (0) or NA if not yet performed/results
pending.
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Dates that previous samples were taken
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DD/MM/YYYY
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If multiple samples taken on same day, some form of unique identifier will be needed to
link to relevant results
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Results of samples
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+1, -1, 0, NA
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Results will be positive (1), negative (-1) or equivocal (0) or NA if not yet performed/results
pending.
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Comments
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Free text
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Basic contextual and relevant information about patient not captured above
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