Camden Health Data Committee

Next Meeting - first week of November, TBD, UMDNJ Dean's Conference Room (Directions)

Mission: To create an up to date, comprehensive health database for the City of Camden that can be used to improve the health status of city residents through targeted clinical interventions and public health research.

Relevant Documents

Key Principles - organizing mission, principles, structure, and purpose

Minutes from 7/27/06 Meeting - first meeting of data committee

IRB Protocol - existing protocol, approved in 2004.

Proposed Changes to Protocol - posted 10/9/06

Best Practices

Authorship Guidelines - sample guidelines from International Committee of Medical Journal Editors  (Posted 8/15/06)

Seattle, Group Health Center, Center for Health Studies

Group Health Research Policy (Posted 8/15/06)

Description of Research Review Process  (Posted 8/15/06)

Ballot for Research Committee Review (Posted 8/15/06)

VanWey et al.  "Confidentiality and spatially explicit data:
Concerns and challenges"  National Academy of Sciences, PNAS, 25 October 2005, 102:43, 15337–15342 (Posted 9/5/06)

Related Research

USA-REVIEW:  Frequent Emergency Department Visitors: The End of
Inappropriateness.  Steven L. Bernstein, MD.  Annals of Emergency Medicine, Volume 48, No. 1.  July 2006 (Posted 10/9/06)

MASSACHUSETTS:  Frequent Users of Massachusetts Emergency Departments: A Statewide Analysis.  Kathleen Kerwin Fuda, PhD and
Rachel Immekus, MPH, MS.  Annals of Emergency Medicine, Volume 48, No. 1.  July 2006 (Posted 10/9/06)

ONTARIO:  The Effect of Low-Complexity Patients on Emergency
Department Waiting Times.  Michael J. Schull, et al.  Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2006.   (Posted 9/5/06)

USA - LARGE CITIES: ER waiting rooms defy stereotypes. Julie Appleby. USA Today, Updated 7/18/2006 (Posted 8/15/06)

NEW JERSEY: Potentially Avoidable Use of Hospital Emergency Departments in New Jersey. Derek DeLia. Rutgers Center for State Health Policy, July 2006 (Posted 8/15/06)

ALBERTA: Strategies To Reduce Emergency Department Overcrowding. Bing Guo, Christa Harstall. Health Technology Assessment, Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research, HTA Report #38, February 2006 (Posted 8/15/06)

USA -SURVEY: Medicaid/SCHIP Cuts And Hospital Emergency Department Use. Peter J. Cunningham. Health Affairs 25, no. 1 (2006): 237–247 (Posted 8/15/06)

USA - SURVEY: Characteristics of Frequent Users of Emergency Departments. Kelly A. Hunt, et al. Annals of Emergency Medicine (Posted 8/15/06)

USA: Who Is at Greatest Risk for Receiving Poor-Quality Health Care?. Steven M. Asch, et al. N Engl J Med 2006;354:1147-56. (Posted 8/15/06)

UTAH: Repeat Patients to the Emergency Department in a Statewide Database. Lawrence J. Cook et al. Academic Emergency Medicine 2004; 11:256–263. (Posted 8/15/06)

USA - SURVEY: Characteristics of Occasional and Frequent Emergency Department Users: Do Insurance Coverage and Access to Care Matter?. Stephen Zuckerman and Yu-Chu Shen. Med Care 2004;42: 176–182 (Posted 8/15/06)

AUSTRALIA: The heaviest repeat users of an inner city emergency department are not general practice patients. Andrew Wesley Dent, et al. Emergency Medicine (2003) 15, 322–329 (Posted 8/15/06)

ONTARIO: Frequent users of emergency departments: Do they also use family physicians’ services?. Benjamin T.B. Chan and Howard J. Ovens. Canadian Family Physician, Vol 48: October 2002 (Posted 8/15/06)

ONTARIO: Heavy users of emergency services: a population-based review. Howard J. Ovens and Benjamin T.B. Chan. CMAJ • OCT. 16, 2001; 165 (8) (Posted 8/15/06)

SAN FRANCISCO: The Effects of Clinical Case Management on Hospital Service Use Among ED Frequent Users. Robert L. Okin, et al. Am J Emerg Med 2000;18:603-608. (Posted 8/15/06)

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