Scalable Partnering Network for Comparative Effectiveness Research: Across Lifespan, Conditions, and Settings (SPAN)
SPAN is a project within the Health Care Systems Research Network (HCSRN), which uses its Virtual Data Warehouse (VDW) to provide a standardised, federated data system across several partner health plans in the United States of America. The VDW consists of commonly-defined linked tables within each health plan. Two cohorts have been analysed within the project: a cohort of individuals with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder who have received differing treatments; and a cohort of individuals with obesity, with and without diagnosed depression, who were and were not treated with weight-loss surgery.
Study design
Registry, Cohort - clinical
Number of participants at first data collection
No information available
Age at first data collection
Varied (participants)
Participant year of birth
Varied (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
No
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
2009
Primary Institutions
Denver Health (DH)
HMO Research Network (now known as Health Care Systems Research Network, HCSRN)
Kaiser Permanente
Profile paper DOI
Funders
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Ongoing?
Yes
Data types collected
- Secondary data
- None
- None
- Healthcare data
- Mortality data
Engagement
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