Journal of Clinical and Translational Science (Jan 2021)
A distributed geospatial approach to describe community characteristics for multisite studies
- Patrick H. Ryan,
- Cole Brokamp,
- Jeff Blossom,
- Nathan Lothrop,
- Rachel L. Miller,
- Paloma I. Beamer,
- Cynthia M. Visness,
- Antonella Zanobetti,
- Howard Andrews,
- Leonard B. Bacharier,
- Tina Hartert,
- Christine C. Johnson,
- Dennis Ownby,
- Robert F. Lemanske,
- Heike Gibson,
- Weeberb Requia,
- Brent Coull,
- Edward M. Zoratti,
- Anne L. Wright,
- Fernando D. Martinez,
- Christine M. Seroogy,
- James E. Gern,
- Diane R. Gold
Affiliations
- Patrick H. Ryan
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Cole Brokamp
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Jeff Blossom
- Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Nathan Lothrop
- Asthma and Airways Disease Research Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA Department of Community, Environment, and Policy, Mel and Enic Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
- Rachel L. Miller
- Division of Clinical Immunology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
- Paloma I. Beamer
- Asthma and Airways Disease Research Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA Department of Community, Environment, and Policy, Mel and Enic Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
- Cynthia M. Visness
- Rho, Inc., Chapel Hill, NC, USA
- Antonella Zanobetti
- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Howard Andrews
- Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
- Leonard B. Bacharier
- Washington University School of Medicine, Division of Pediatric Allergy, Immunology, and Pulmonary Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
- Tina Hartert
- Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
- Christine C. Johnson
- Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI, USA
- Dennis Ownby
- Division of Allergy and Immunology, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, USA
- Robert F. Lemanske
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA
- Heike Gibson
- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Weeberb Requia
- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Brent Coull
- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Edward M. Zoratti
- Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI, USA
- Anne L. Wright
- Asthma and Airways Disease Research Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
- Fernando D. Martinez
- Asthma and Airways Disease Research Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
- Christine M. Seroogy
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA
- James E. Gern
- Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA
- Diane R. Gold
- Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA Channing Division of Network Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1017/cts.2021.7
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 5
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.
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