Putting Data Linkage into FIRST Gear: Lessons from Firefighter Injury Research
Author(s) -
Jennifer A. Taylor,
Michael T. Le Vasseur,
Shan Widman,
P. Sruthi Sankar,
Henry J. Costo
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
online journal of public health informatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1947-2579
DOI - 10.5210/ojphi.v7i1.5663
Subject(s) - linkage (software) , medicine , medical emergency , emergency department , data science , computer science , nursing , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
Putting data linkage into FIRST gear: lessons from the Firefighter Injury Research and Safety Trends project (FIRST). The purpose of this panel is to describe the process of using data to develop firefighter nonfatal injury surveillance systems in the city of Philadelphia and the state of Florida through the linkage of data from workers' compensation, inpatient and emergency department hospitalizations, human resources, and continuing education/training registries.
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