The links below contained detailed information for the upcoming 2017 Safe States Alliance Annual Meeting, taking place September 12-14, 2017 in Aurora, Colorado.
Please note:
- A total of five concurrent sessions will take place during the Annual Meeting, and there will be up to five breakouts occurring simultaneously during each of those concurrent sessions. Within each breakout, there will be up to four presentations that take place.
- This online system does not allow us to embed the individual presentations within each breakout. Please note the session presentations listed under each Concurrent Breakout title for associated content.
- The on-site mobile app WILL embed these sessions for ease of use.
- A printable, detailed agenda can be found on the 2017 Annual Meeting website.
- If you have any questions, please contact info@safestates.org
- All session times and locations are tentative and subject to change. Safe States will continue to update these details as changes take place.
Beyond the E Code Matrix: Choosing the Red Pill
Learning Objectives
In this session, participants will:
- Objective 1: Understand alternative paradigms for examining hospital discharge data, with an increased focus on behaviors.
- Objective 2: Articulate the benefit of examining non-injurious risk factors.
- Objective 3: Know how some of the CSTE Surveillance Indicators for Substance Abuse and Mental Health are being incorporated into Minnesota's online query system.
Statement of Purpose
The External Cause (E code) Matrix has been the standard paradigm for reporting on injury and violence using hospital discharge data. The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) built an interactive query system for hospital discharge data known as MIDAS (Minnesota Injury Data Access System); this has been a very useful tool for providing injury/violence data and information to end users.
However, reporting on injury and violence has become more nuanced, including aspects such as suicidal ideation, sexual assault examinations without injury, opioid poisonings, etc. There is increased need for alternative and enhanced data queries.
Methods/Approach
The MDH has expanded the modules within the MIDAS data query system beyond the standard E code matrix categories to now include MIDAS-Violence, MIDAS-CODES, and poisoning subgroups. In development are MIDAS-Dashboard and MIDAS-Behaviors. An important aspect in the development of these modules has been the determination of case definitions and classifications.
Results
The MIDAS modules are coming online at http://www.health.state.mn.us/injury/midas/, as are the case definitions and classifications.
Conclusions & Significance to the Field
This new and innovative approach to reporting on injury/violence goes beyond the existing reporting paradigm of the E Code Matrix. Including non-injurious violence and behaviors helps injury prevention professionals and their community partners to assess prevention efforts further “upstream”.
Presenters
Anna Gaichas, MS, Minnesota Department of Health
Biography
Ms. Anna Gaichas received her MS in Biostatistics from the University of Minnesota in 1996. She has worked as a research analyst and statistician with the Injury and Violence Prevention Program at the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) since 1997. She is knowledgeable and proficient in working with the MDH TBI/SCI/Trauma Registries, electronic death records, hospital and emergency department discharge data and crash data and is developing increasing knowledge of EMS and All Payer Claims Data. She also has expertise in case definition development; deterministic, hierarchical and probabilistic data linkage; sample design; data analysis; SAS programming; multivariate modeling and missing value imputation.