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  • Public health research
  • Data science

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  • Medical examiners and coroners (ME/C) conduct medicolegal death investigations.
  • ME/C data offers insights into causes of death and contributing factors.
  • Utilizing open data from ME/C offices is crucial for forensic epidemiology.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To demonstrate the strengths and limitations of ME/C data for forensic epidemiology.
  • To showcase the utility of ME/C data for substance use disorder and overdose research.
  • To advocate for increased data transparency from ME/C offices.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a novel geoPIPE tool for automated data ingestion and geocoding.
  • Enhanced ME/C data with overdose-relevant variables, including substance identification.
  • Published enriched data weekly to an open repository for accessibility.

Main Results:

  • Text processing successfully extracted drug information, yielding compatible data across locations.
  • Geospatial analyses revealed incompatibilities due to varying geographic resolution (e.g., zip codes vs. coordinates).
  • Visualizations demonstrated the contextualization of overdose data within and across geographic regions.

Conclusions:

  • Open ME/C data is highly valuable for public health research, particularly for substance use disorders.
  • The spatial component of the data facilitates overdose event clustering and resource accessibility studies.
  • Encouraging ME/C offices to release open data and supporting transparency efforts is vital.