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A distributed geospatial approach to describe community characteristics for multisite studies
- Source :
- Journal of Clinical and Translational Science
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Understanding place-based contributors to health requires geographically and culturally diverse study populations, but sharing location data is a significant challenge to multisite studies. Here, we describe a standardized and reproducible method to perform geospatial analyses for multisite studies. Using census tract-level information, we created software for geocoding and geospatial data linkage that was distributed to a consortium of birth cohorts located throughout the USA. Individual sites performed geospatial linkages and returned tract-level information for 8810 children to a central site for analyses. Our generalizable approach demonstrates the feasibility of geospatial analyses across study sites to promote collaborative translational research.
- Subjects :
- Location data
0303 health sciences
Geospatial analysis
participant confidentiality
Brief Report
Research Methods and Technology
Translational research
General Medicine
computer.software_genre
GIS
Data science
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Geography
determinants of health
Geocoding
030212 general & internal medicine
Social determinants of health
Birth cohort
computer
multisite studies
030304 developmental biology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20598661
- Volume :
- 5
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of clinical and translational science
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....92eeabdf23ee7c302b15fb12a92504f7