In 2016, the CDC funded 12 states, under the Enhanced State Opioid Overdose Surveillance (ESOOS) program, to utilize SyS to increase timeliness of state data on drug overdose events. In order to operationalize the objectives of the grant, there was a need to assess and monitor the quality of Kentuckyâs SyS data, with limited resources. We leveraged the NSSPâs R Studio Server to automate quality assurance (QA) monitoring and reporting to meet these objectives.
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