Journal article
Development of the integrated New Jersey Safety and Health Outcomes (NJ-SHO) data warehouse: catalysing advancements in injury prevention research
INJURY PREVENTION, v 27(5), pp 472-478
Oct 2021
PMID: 33685949
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Abstract
Objective Our objective was to describe the development of the New Jersey Safety and Health Outcomes (NJ-SHO) data warehouse-a unique and comprehensive data source that integrates state-wide administrative databases in NJ to enable the field of injury prevention to address critical, high-priority research questions. Methods We undertook an iterative process to link data from six state-wide administrative databases from NJ for the period of 2004 through 2018: (1) driver licensing histories, (2) traffic-related citations and suspensions, (3) police-reported crashes, (4) birth certificates, (5) death certificates and (6) hospital discharges (emergency department, inpatient and outpatient). We also linked to electronic health records of all NJ patients of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia network, census tract-level indicators (using geocoded residential addresses) and state-wide Medicaid/Medicare data. We used several metrics to evaluate the quality of the linkage process. Results After the linkage process was complete, the NJ-SHO data warehouse included linked records for 22.3 million distinct individuals. Our evaluation of this linkage suggests that the linkage was of high quality: (1) the median match probability-or likelihood of a match being true-among all accepted pairs was 0.9999 (IQR: 0.9999-1.0000); and (2) the false match rate-or proportion of accepted pairs that were false matches-was 0.0063. Conclusions The resulting NJ-SHO warehouse is one of the most comprehensive and rich longitudinal sources of injury data to date. The warehouse has already been used to support numerous studies and is primed to support a host of rigorous studies in the field of injury prevention.
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- Title
- Development of the integrated New Jersey Safety and Health Outcomes (NJ-SHO) data warehouse: catalysing advancements in injury prevention research
- Publication Details
- INJURY PREVENTION, v 27(5), pp 472-478
- Publisher
- BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP; LONDON
- Number of pages
- 6
- Grant note
- This work was supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the National Institutes of Health Awards R21HD092850 (PI: AEC) and R21HD098276 (PI: AEC).
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Drexel University
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000700177900014
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85102294546
- Other Identifier
- 991021860757304721
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- Public, Environmental & Occupational Health