Institute for Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy, College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506.
Cook County Medical Examiner Office, Chicago, Illinois 60612.
AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2023 Apr 29;2022:522-531. eCollection 2022.
We present our open-source pipeline for quickly enhancing open data sets with research-focused expansions and show its effectiveness on a cornerstone open data set released by the Cook County government in Illinois. The City of Chicago and Cook County were both early adopters of open data portals and have made a wide variety of data available to the public; we focus on the medical examiner case archive which provides information about deaths recorded by Cook County's Office of the Medical Examiner, including overdoses invaluable to substance use disorder research. Our pipeline derives key variables from open data and links to other publicly available data sets in support of accelerating translational research on substance use disorders. Our methods apply to location-based analyses of overdoses in general and, as an example, we highlight their impact on opioid research. We provide our pipeline as open-source software to act as open infrastructure for open data to help fill the gap between data release and data use.
我们展示了一个开源管道，用于快速将研究重点扩展到开放数据集，并在伊利诺伊州库克县政府发布的一个基石开放数据集中展示了其有效性。芝加哥市和库克县都是开放数据门户的早期采用者，他们向公众提供了各种各样的数据；我们专注于法医案例档案，该档案提供了有关库克县法医办公室记录的死亡信息，包括对物质使用障碍研究非常宝贵的过量信息。我们的管道从开放数据中提取关键变量，并链接到其他公开可用的数据集，以支持加速物质使用障碍的转化研究。我们的方法适用于一般基于位置的过量分析，并且，作为一个例子，我们强调了它们对阿片类药物研究的影响。我们提供我们的管道作为开源软件，作为开放数据的开放基础设施，以帮助弥合数据发布和数据使用之间的差距。
