Data Sources

Bringing together faculty and staff with a shared interest in use of existing data for scientific knowledge discovery to answer important questions in clinical practice, disease etiology and treatment, risk factors and predictive modeling, social determinants of health, learning health systems, health behavior and health equity.

Secondary Data Core

The Secondary Data Core brings together faculty and staff with a shared interest in use of existing data for scientific knowledge discovery to answer important questions in clinical practice, disease etiology and treatment, risk factors and predictive modeling, social determinants of health, learning health systems, health behavior and health equity. Expertise in our group spans multiple areas and provide a centralized hub for collaboration including connecting investigators with informative data sources and like-minded colleagues, genesis and formulation of research hypotheses, innovative data exploration and discovery, rigorous study design considerations, development of grant proposals, writing analytic plans and dissemination of study findings in an informative fashion.

The Secondary Data Core has many members and partners around The Ohio State and Nationwide Children’s Hospital; both of which are comprised of faculty and staff with a wide array of areas of expertise.

Databases

Data sources are largely broken down into two categories: administrative billing databases and specialty databases. Within each of the two categories, there are multiple databases, each with their own strengths and weaknesses.

Learn more about databases

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Questions for the Secondary Data Core can be sent to secondarydatacore@osumc.edu.