Positioning public health surveillance for observational studies and clinical trials: The St. Louis region-wide hospital-based violence intervention program data repository
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INTRODUCTION: Firearm injuries are a public health epidemic in the United States, yet a comprehensive national database for patients with firearm injuries does not exist. Here we describe the methods for a study to develop and query a new regional database of all patients who present to a St. Louis level I trauma hospital with a violent injury, the St. Louis Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Program Data Repository (STL-HVIP-DR). We hypothesize that the STL-HVIP-DR will facilitate identification of patients at risk for violent injury and serve as a comparison population for participants enrolled in clinical trials. METHODS: The STL-HVIP-DR includes all visits made for violent injury to four level I trauma hospitals in St. Louis, Missouri between January 1, 2010 and December 31, 2019. Two health systems representing the four participating hospitals executed a data sharing agreement to aggregate clinical data on firearm injuries, stabbings, and blunt assaults. Dataset variables include demographic hospital and timestamp, medical, and insurance information. RESULTS: A preliminary cross-sectional query of the STL-HVIP-DR reveals 121,955 patient visits among the four partner level I trauma hospitals for a violent injury between 2010 and 2019. This includes over 18,000 patient visits for firearm injury. DISCUSSION: The STL-HVIP-DR repository fills a critical gap regarding identification and outcomes among individuals who are violently injured, especially those with non-lethal firearm injuries. It is our hope that the methods presented in this paper will serve as a primer to develop repositories to help target violence prevention services in other regions.
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The STL-HVIP-DR contains EHR data from all patients that presented to the hospital (ED and inpatient) following a violent injury.
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- Authors
- Mueller, K. L., Trolard, A., Moran, V., Landman, J. M., & Foraker, R.
- Affiliations
- Washington University in St. Louis (US)
- Saint Louis University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Mueller, Kristen L.
- Venue
- Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2021-03
- Volume
- 21
- Pages
- 100683
- ISSN
- 2451-8654 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC7770475
- OpenAlex
- W3112473827
- Cited by
- 32
- References
- 12
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 19 · 2021: 1
- FWCI
- 3.05
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
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- Locations
- Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- Emergency Medicine Foundation
- Missouri Foundation for Health
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Gun Ownership and Violence Research
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Emergency Medicine › Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
- Keywords
- violence intervention programs, violent injury, firearm injuries, data repositories, stabbing, violence prevention, disease surveillance, St. Louis
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