Linking out-of-hospital deaths with a regional hospital-based firearm injury database: a clinical researcher's guide to accessing data from the National Death Index.
Kristen L MuellerBenjamin P CooperVicki MoranMichael ManciniRandi E ForakerPublished in: Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention (2022)
- A step-by-step guide for clinical researchers of how to apply to access data from the National Death Index (NDI).- Advice and lessons learned on how to efficiently and effectively access data from the NDI.- A well-described methodology to improve the quality of longitudinal morbdity and mortality calculations in hospital-based cohorts of firearm injured patients.What is already known on this subject:- There is a need for robust, longitudinal data sources that reliably track morbidity and mortality among firearm injured patients in the United States.- The NDI is a well-established, comprehensive database that holds death records for all 50 states, which provides valuable mortality data to the public health and medical research community.
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