Rahimi Elham, Ghaderi Ebrahim, Mostafavi Ehsan, Karami Manoochehr
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Safety, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Research Institute for Health Development, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran.
BMC Infect Dis. 2025 Apr 10;25(1):496. doi: 10.1186/s12879-025-10887-6.
Preparing a precise report of disease outbreak investigation is an important step to share the acquired experiences about causes of outbreaks and control measures for control and prevention of current and further outbreaks.
Assessing the quality of published reports of measles outbreak investigation.
Three databases including PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus were systematically searched to retrieve studies published between 2005 and 2022 on measles outbreak investigation reports. Data were elicited using inclusion criteria and assessing the guidelines for outbreak investigation reports. The results for mentioning each item in studies were reported by percentage.
Sixty-four studies were assessed for the quality of measles outbreak investigation reports. Studies encompass a broad span of geographic areas. Funding revealed that outbreak investigation details are reported in most studies but some of them like type of study(37.5%), control/ unexposed selection/definition(18.75%), investigation team(10.93%), statistical test(32.81%), and symptoms of disease in cases(18.75%), are poorly reported. On the other hand, variables like description of the problem(89.07%), laboratory methods(84.38%), and feasible recommendations(95.32%), are highly reported.
Outbreak Investigation and appropriate reporting are a pilar of measles elimination program. This study highlights significant limitations in the reporting of measles outbreak investigations, including incomplete reporting of key variables. To improve the quality of outbreak reports, this study offers some suggestions, such as adopting standardized reporting guidelines and providing training courses for investigators.
编写一份精确的疾病爆发调查报告是分享有关爆发原因及控制措施的经验，以防控当前及未来爆发的重要一步。
评估已发表的麻疹爆发调查报告的质量。
系统检索包括PubMed、科学网和Scopus在内的三个数据库，以获取2005年至2022年期间发表的关于麻疹爆发调查报告的研究。根据纳入标准收集数据，并评估爆发调查报告的指南。研究中提及各项目的结果以百分比形式报告。
对64项麻疹爆发调查报告的质量进行了评估。这些研究涵盖了广泛的地理区域。资金情况显示，大多数研究报告了爆发调查细节，但其中一些方面，如研究类型（37.5%）、对照/未暴露组的选择/定义（18.75%）、调查团队（10.93%）、统计检验（32.81%）以及病例中的疾病症状（18.75%），报告情况较差。另一方面，如问题描述（89.07%）、实验室方法（84.38%）和可行建议（95.32%）等变量，报告率较高。
爆发调查及适当报告是麻疹消除计划的一个支柱。本研究突出了麻疹爆发调查报告中的显著局限性，包括关键变量报告不完整。为提高爆发报告的质量，本研究提出了一些建议，如采用标准化报告指南并为调查人员提供培训课程。
