CTSA MHRI Datasets

Abstract

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has collaborated with MedStar Health Research Institute (MHRI) to develop, test, and validate health outcomes using electronic health records (EHRs) from hospitals associated with participating Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA). MHRI, the research organization of MedStar Health (MSH), has a history of initiating projects, both in the laboratory and in the field, that serve the needs of medically underserved and disenfranchised groups. In this document, the ORNL team is providing data curation documentation for the following datasets, which are publicly available: 1. Area Deprivation Index (ADI) 2015 block group; 2. Child Opportunity Index 2015 tract; 3. Low food access 2017 block group; 4. Neighborhood deprivation index 2017 tract; 5. Social Capital Index 2014 county; and, 6. Social Vulnerability Index 2014 tract.