Objective To analyze the application effect of China infectious disease automated-alert and response system (CIDARS) for early warning of key infectious disease in Tongzhou District of Beijing, and provide reference for the improvement of early-warning system. Methods The CIDARS early warning signals in Tongzhou District of Beijing from 2013 to 2020 were descriptively analyzed, and the amount of warning signals, the timely response rate, the response time, positive rate of suspected events and positive rate of outbreak events for fixed-value detection model, temporal model and temporal-spatial model were compared and analyzed. Results A total of 3940 warning signals were collect by CIDARS in Tongzhou District of Beijing. The timely response rate was 98.73% and the average response time was 0.43 (0.18-1.20) h. The positive rate of suspected events was 26.62% and positive rate of outbreak events was 1.47%. In the fixed-value detection model, 1904 warning signals were generated on 14 kinds of infectious diseases, among which the measles, tuberculosis and brucellosis accounted for 82.77% of the warning signals. In the temporal model, 1460 warning signals were generated on 12 kinds of infectious diseases, among which the influenza, hand-foot-mouth disease and scarlet fever accounted for 55.61% of the warning signals. In the temporal-spatial model, 576 warning signals were generated on 7 kinds of infectious diseases, among which the influenza, other infectious diarrhea diseases and scarlet fever accounted for 88.20% of the warning signals. The positive rate of outbreak events by fixed-value detection model was higher than that by temporal-spatial model (P<0.05). The response time of early warning signals showed statistically significant difference in different years, and the longest average response time was observed in 2019, while the shortest average response time was observed in 2014 and 2016 years (P<0.05). Conclusions The warning signals of CIDARS system in Tongzhou District of Beijing from 2013 to 2020 maintains high response time and high timely response rate, and all the 3 models (fixed-value detection model, temporal model and temporal-spatial model) detects the outbreak of infectious diseases. CIDARS has an effective operation, but the parameters and functions of early warning system should be further improved to increase the positive rate of infectious disease early warning outbreak events. |