Cross-Disciplinary Consultancy to Enhance Predictions of Asthma Exacerbation Risk in Boston Online Journal of Public Health Informatics

This paper continues an initiative conducted by the International Society for Disease Surveillance with funding from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to connect near-term analytical needs of public health practice with technical expertise from the global research community. The goal is to enhance investigation capabilities of day-to-day population health monitors. A prior paper described the formation of consultancies for requirements analysis and dialogue regarding costs and benefits of sustainable analytic tools. Each funded consultancy targets a use case of near-term concern to practitioners. The consultancy featured here focused on improving predictions of asthma exacerbation risk in demographic and geographic subdivisions of the city of Boston, Massachusetts, USA based on the combination of known risk factors for which evidence is routinely available. 2016 PMC5302473 NWS (National Weather Service) Submitted https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v8i3.6902 CC BY 1948