KA follows the unique practice of including a patient number in their bulletin. Earlier, KA used to publish individual new cases with patient no. which was useful to trace contacts from a case as well as follow through the entire patient lifecycle.
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As cases increased, KA dropped publishing individual new cases in the bulletins but continues to publish the patient numbers for recoveries and deaths. While this is non-consequential to a lay person, this unique patient identifier was very useful to analysts.
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How was the unique identifier useful?
* Helped calculate exact recovery characteristics based on demographic parameters. For eg. is duration for recovery dependent on age or symptoms?
* Helped draw a map of contact cases by interlinking primary and secondary contacts.
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* Helped calculate exact recovery characteristics based on demographic parameters. For eg. is duration for recovery dependent on age or symptoms?
* Helped draw a map of contact cases by interlinking primary and secondary contacts.
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While patient numbers for recoveries and deaths without knowing the patient number of new cases does not help anymore, this practice that was followed by KA will remain to be an excellent example of data management and reporting during the pandemic.
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