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History of the Rochester Epidemiology Project
Abstract
The Rochester Epidemiology Project is a unique medical records-linkage system that encompasses the care delivered to residents of Rochester and Olmsted County, Minnesota. It is the creation of Dr. Leonard T. Kurland, who envisioned the population-based data resource that would result from combining the clinical documentation developed by the Mayo Clinic with that obtained by other community providers, most notably the Olmsted Medical Group and its affiliated Olmsted Community Hospital. Kurland built on the Mayo unit medical record system that was designed by Dr. Henry S. Plummer in 1907 and on the medical and surgical indexing systems introduced by Dr. Joseph Berkson in 1935. By affording access to details of the medical care given to local residents, the Rochester Epidemiology Project is able to provide accurate incidence data for almost any serious condition and to support population-based analytic studies of disease causes and outcomes. Thus, epidemiologic studies of a wide array of disorders have been possible and have culminated in almost 900 publications since the system was organized in 1966. Olmsted County is one of the few places in the world where the occurrence and natural history of diseases can be accurately described and analyzed in a defined population for a half century or more.
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“The Olmsted County, Minnesota, population comprises ~120,000 individuals, of which 89% are white; sociodemographically, this community resembles the US white population.”
From Psychosocial Distress and Somatic Symptoms in Community Subjects With Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Psychological Component Is the Rule (2009) · cites this paper as [24]
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“During any given 4-year period, more than 95% of the local residents will have had at least one local health-care contact (24).”
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“Therefore, the Rochester Epidemiology Project records linkage system provides essentially an enumeration of the population from which samples can be collected (24).”
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Incidence of Epilepsy and Unprovoked Seizures in Rochester, Minnesota: 1935–1984
Hauser, W. A., Annegers, J. F., & Kurland, L. T. (1993) · Epilepsia · doi:10.1111/j.1528-1157.1993.tb02586.x · Cited by 2,084
The Patient Record in Epidemiology
Kurland, L. T., & Molgaard, C. A. (1981) · Scientific American · doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1081-54 · Cited by 780
A Community-based Study of the Epidemiology of Asthma: Incidence Rates, 1964–1983
Yunginger, J. W., Reed, C. E., O’Connell, E. J., Melton, L. J., O’Fallon, W. M., & Silverstein, M. D. (1992) · American Review of Respiratory Disease · doi:10.1164/ajrccm/146.4.888 · Cited by 724
Self-citationEpidemiology of colonic symptoms and the irritable bowel syndrome
Talley, N. J., Zinsmeister, A. R., van Dyke, C., & Melton, L. J. (1991) · Gastroenterology · doi:10.1016/0016-5085(91)90717-y · Cited by 648
Self-citationRisk of Connective-Tissue Diseases and Other Disorders after Breast Implantation
Gabriel, S. E., O’Fallon, W. M., Kurland, L. T., Beard, C. M., Woods, J. E., & Melton, L. J. (1994) · New England Journal of Medicine · doi:10.1056/nejm199406163302401 · Cited by 426
Self-citationEpidemiologic Features of Pelvic Fractures
Melton, L. J., SAMPSON, J. M., Morrey, B. F., & Ilstrup, D. M. (1981) · Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research · doi:10.1097/00003086-198103000-00008 · Cited by 224
Self-citationPrevalence of Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes Mellitus in Residents of Rochester, Minnesota
Phillips, S. J., Whisnant, J. P., O’Fallon, W. M., & Frye, R. L. (1990) · Mayo Clinic Proceedings · doi:10.1016/s0025-6196(12)62535-x · Cited by 199
Predictors of hip fractures in elderly men
Poór, G., Atkinson, E. J., O’Fallon, W. M., & Melton, L. J. (1995) · Journal of Bone and Mineral Research · doi:10.1002/jbmr.5650101209 · Cited by 173
Self-citationClinical risk factors for Alzheimer's disease
Kokmen, E., Beard, C. M., Chandra, V., OFFORD, K. P., Schoenberg, B. S., & Ballard, D. (1991) · Neurology · doi:10.1212/wnl.41.9.1393 · Cited by 171
Heart Disease Mortality and Morbidity in Patients with Epilepsy
Annegers, J. F., Hauser, W. A., & Shirts, S. B. (1984) · Epilepsia · doi:10.1111/j.1528-1157.1984.tb03480.x · Cited by 161
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Burden of valvular heart diseases: a population-based study
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Burden of Systolic and Diastolic Ventricular Dysfunction in the Community
Redfield, M. M., Jacobsen, S. J., Burnett, J. C. J., Mahoney, D. W., Bailey, K. R., & Rodeheffer, R. J. (2003) · JAMA · doi:10.1001/jama.289.2.194 · Cited by 2,989
The Natural History of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: A Population-Based Cohort Study
Adams, L. A., Lymp, J. F., St. Sauver, J., Sanderson, S. O., Lindor, K. D., Feldstein, A., & Angulo, P. (2005) · Gastroenterology · doi:10.1053/j.gastro.2005.04.014 · Cited by 2,890
Metadata
- Authors
- Melton, L. J.
- Affiliations
- Mayo Clinic (US)
- Corresponding author
- Melton, L. Joseph
- Venue
- Mayo Clinic Proceedings
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1996-03
- Volume
- 71
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 266-274
- ISSN
- 0025-6196 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2137393443
- Cited by
- 1,443
- References
- 30
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 22 · 2021: 35 · 2020: 27 · 2019: 18 · 2018: 30 · 2017: 26 · 2016: 44 · 2015: 35 · 2014: 43 · 2013: 80 · 2012: 89
- FWCI
- 121.36
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Mayo Clinic Proceedings (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Medical Coding and Health Information
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Historical and modern epidemiology studies
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Electronic Health Records Systems
- Keywords
- Rochester Epidemiology Project, medical record linkage, Olmsted County, Minnesota, disease incidence, natural history of disease
- MeSH terms
- Epidemiology, Humans, Medical Record Linkage, Minnesota, History, 20th Century
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