A Platform for Crowdsourced Foodborne Illness Surveillance: Description of Users and Reports.
A Platform for Crowdsourced Foodborne Illness Surveillance: Description of Users and Reports.
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DOI：
10.2196/publichealth.7076
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发表时间：
2017-07-05
影响因子：
8.5
通讯作者：
Nsoesie EO
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作者：
Quade P;Nsoesie EO
食源性疾病的漏报使得食源性疾病负担估计、及时发现疫情以及评估改善食品安全的政策变得具有挑战性。本研究的目的是介绍和评估 Iwaspoisoned.com，这是一个开放访问的基于互联网的众包平台，于 2009 年推出，用于监测食源性疾病。该系统的目标是收集可用于增强食源性疾病监测传统方法的数据。受食源性疾病影响的个人可以使用该系统报告其症状和疑似感染地点（例如餐厅、酒店、医院）。我们提供了用户和企业的描述性统计数据，并重点介绍了在当地卫生部门正式确认疫情爆发之前提交食源性疾病报告的三个实例。自 Iwaspoisoned.com 成立以来，来自 89 个国家和美国各州的个人已在该网站上提交了超过 49,000 份疑似食源性疾病报告。大约 95.51% (42,139/44,119) 的投诉表明餐馆是疾病的根源。此外，据估计，参与人口统计调查的用户中有 67.55% (3118/4616) 的年龄在 18 至 34 岁之间，其中 60.14% (2776/4616) 的受访者是女性。目前，美国 90% (45/50) 的州的卫生部门也使用该平台来补充现有的食源性疾病报告计划。通过 Iwaspoisoned.com 等系统进行的众包疾病监测利用社交媒体的影响力和熟悉度来创建一个基础设施，以便轻松报告和监测可疑的食源性疾病事件。如果与传统的监测方法相结合，这些系统有可能减少食源性疾病漏报的问题，并有助于及早发现和监测食源性疾病的爆发。
Underreporting of foodborne illness makes foodborne disease burden estimation, timely outbreak detection, and evaluation of policies toward improving food safety challenging. The objective of this study was to present and evaluate Iwaspoisoned.com, an openly accessible Internet-based crowdsourcing platform that was launched in 2009 for the surveillance of foodborne illness. The goal of this system is to collect data that can be used to augment traditional approaches to foodborne disease surveillance. Individuals affected by a foodborne illness can use this system to report their symptoms and the suspected location (eg, restaurant, hotel, hospital) of infection. We present descriptive statistics of users and businesses and highlight three instances where reports of foodborne illness were submitted before the outbreaks were officially confirmed by the local departments of health. More than 49,000 reports of suspected foodborne illness have been submitted on Iwaspoisoned.com since its inception by individuals from 89 countries and every state in the United States. Approximately 95.51% (42,139/44,119) of complaints implicated restaurants as the source of illness. Furthermore, an estimated 67.55% (3118/4616) of users who responded to a demographic survey were between the ages of 18 and 34, and 60.14% (2776/4616) of the respondents were female. The platform is also currently used by health departments in 90% (45/50) of states in the US to supplement existing programs on foodborne illness reporting. Crowdsourced disease surveillance through systems such as Iwaspoisoned.com uses the influence and familiarity of social media to create an infrastructure for easy reporting and surveillance of suspected foodborne illness events. If combined with traditional surveillance approaches, these systems have the potential to lessen the problem of foodborne illness underreporting and aid in early detection and monitoring of foodborne disease outbreaks.