Philadelphia SSuN December 2, 2009 Atlanta, GA Greta L Anschuetz Telephone: Address: 500 S Broad St, Philadelphia, 19146

Items of discussion  Randomization for GC interviews  Trich Summary  Challenges to date  Report created for GC data

Ranuni function of SAS ®  Random number generator in SAS  Returns a random variate from a uniform distribution.  z=RANUNI(seed);  Make sure your seed is an integer.  Returns numbers from 0-1 (all are equally likely), so approximately 20% of the random numbers will be less than 0.20, thus keeping all records with a number <0.20 will be keeping 20% of the sample

Code for Randomization data gcdata2; set gcdata1; if hdistno ne 'N'; /*Deleting OOJs*/ /*Ineligible: 1)recs rpt’ed >60 days from lab & 2)anyone under 14 years*/ if (rcvdt-l1dt)>60 then eligible = 0; else if age lt 14 then eligible = 0; else eligible =1; /*Keep only eligible records*/ run; data gcdata3; set gcdata2; random = ranuni(56); /*random # assigned to eligibles*/ run; data gcdata4; set gcdata3; if random ge 0.0 and random le 0.20 then select=1; else select =0; /*We attempt to interview anyone with a random number between 0.0 and 0.20 – 20%*/ run;

Trich data  420 Inpouch results –57 (13%) positive –4 (7.8%) demonstrated in vitro resistance (of 51 tested for resistance at CDC lab)  On average, those with a positive Inpouch were 5 years older than those who tested negative. –Median age showed same results  35% of the positives vs. 21% of the negatives – had a previous history of Trichomonas.  72% (41/57) of the patients with a positive Inpouch were positive by wet mount.

 GC Interviews –NETSS data formats did not match SSuN data formats E.g., PA state in NETSS is “42” but formatted as a character; for SSuN the format is numeric – variable has same name! Dates are character formatted – SSuN uses a date format –Added geocoder to our existing database Only able to code census tract Philadelphia addresses –Learning Access VB scripting Many cases have missing phone number Created a new page to go to “clinician page” Challenges to date  Clinic –Get new version of medical record live Previous Medical Record New Medical Record Live Date: 9/14/2009

Patient’s NameDOB Example of “Clinician Page”

Report created for GC data  Work in Progress!  Auto report generated from county file sent to Darlene  Able to keep the program informed on the progress of SSuN and the data that we are getting  SAS code is adaptable if other sites would like a copy of the program that generates the report