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A distributed geospatial approach to describe community characteristics for multisite studies
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....
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Cambridge University Press
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8111696/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34007469 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cts.2021.7 |
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author | Ryan, Patrick H. Brokamp, Cole Blossom, Jeff Lothrop, Nathan Miller, Rachel L. Beamer, Paloma I. Visness, Cynthia M. Zanobetti, Antonella Andrews, Howard Bacharier, Leonard B. Hartert, Tina Johnson, Christine C. Ownby, Dennis Lemanske, Robert F. Gibson, Heike Requia, Weeberb Coull, Brent Zoratti, Edward M. Wright, Anne L. Martinez, Fernando D. Seroogy, Christine M. Gern, James E. Gold, Diane R. |
author_facet | Ryan, Patrick H. Brokamp, Cole Blossom, Jeff Lothrop, Nathan Miller, Rachel L. Beamer, Paloma I. Visness, Cynthia M. Zanobetti, Antonella Andrews, Howard Bacharier, Leonard B. Hartert, Tina Johnson, Christine C. Ownby, Dennis Lemanske, Robert F. Gibson, Heike Requia, Weeberb Coull, Brent Zoratti, Edward M. Wright, Anne L. Martinez, Fernando D. Seroogy, Christine M. Gern, James E. Gold, Diane R. |
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description | 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. |
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spelling | pubmed-81116962021-05-17 A distributed geospatial approach to describe community characteristics for multisite studies Ryan, Patrick H. Brokamp, Cole Blossom, Jeff Lothrop, Nathan Miller, Rachel L. Beamer, Paloma I. Visness, Cynthia M. Zanobetti, Antonella Andrews, Howard Bacharier, Leonard B. Hartert, Tina Johnson, Christine C. Ownby, Dennis Lemanske, Robert F. Gibson, Heike Requia, Weeberb Coull, Brent Zoratti, Edward M. Wright, Anne L. Martinez, Fernando D. Seroogy, Christine M. Gern, James E. Gold, Diane R. J Clin Transl Sci Brief Report 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. Cambridge University Press 2021-02-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8111696/ /pubmed/34007469 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cts.2021.7 Text en © The Association for Clinical and Translational Science 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Brief Report Ryan, Patrick H. Brokamp, Cole Blossom, Jeff Lothrop, Nathan Miller, Rachel L. Beamer, Paloma I. Visness, Cynthia M. Zanobetti, Antonella Andrews, Howard Bacharier, Leonard B. Hartert, Tina Johnson, Christine C. Ownby, Dennis Lemanske, Robert F. Gibson, Heike Requia, Weeberb Coull, Brent Zoratti, Edward M. Wright, Anne L. Martinez, Fernando D. Seroogy, Christine M. Gern, James E. Gold, Diane R. A distributed geospatial approach to describe community characteristics for multisite studies |
title | A distributed geospatial approach to describe community characteristics for multisite studies |
title_full | A distributed geospatial approach to describe community characteristics for multisite studies |
title_fullStr | A distributed geospatial approach to describe community characteristics for multisite studies |
title_full_unstemmed | A distributed geospatial approach to describe community characteristics for multisite studies |
title_short | A distributed geospatial approach to describe community characteristics for multisite studies |
title_sort | distributed geospatial approach to describe community characteristics for multisite studies |
topic | Brief Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8111696/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34007469 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cts.2021.7 |
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