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The Arizona CODES
project enables us to evaluate crash characteristics,
medical and also the financial outcome of crashes that
occurred within the State of Arizona. It is part of a
national project in which 29 states currently
participate. The project is funded by the National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
The mission of the project is to develop and maintain
a comprehensive motor vehicle crash database in order to
serve statewide stakeholders for identifying contributing
factors in crashes, cost effectiveness of safety measures,
and feasibility of initiatives in Arizona. Individual
records and personal identifiers are not included as
products of the system.
The Crash Outcome
Data Evaluation System Project (CODES) links the
following data (as shown in the diagram below:
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Crash data as
collected by the police on the scene of the crash
(i.e. the Arizona Department of Transportation
accident database)
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EMS data as
collected by the emergency personnel that provides
treatment at the scene of the crash
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Emergency
department or hospital data as collected by the
medical personnel that provides treatment at the
emergency department, the hospital or outpatient
facility.
By linking this data
through probabilistic linkage methods, the individuals
involved and injured in a particular crash, can be
tracked from the crash scene and through the health care
system, giving us the ability to evaluate not only the
crash characteristics from the accident database but
also the medical and financial outcome for specific
crash characteristics such as vehicle, person or
specific event characteristics.
The Arizona CODES
project, i.e. the process of linking all the
abovementioned databases, is funded by the National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The
development and improvement of the linkage software,
CODES2000, is funded by NHTSA and the Association of
Governors' Offices of Highway Safety (AGOHS
The other CODES
states are: Alaska,
Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia,
Hawaii, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland,
Massachusetts,
Minnesota,
Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire,
New Mexico, New York, North Dakota,
Oklahoma,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina,
South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Wisconsin
You can read more
about the National CODES project at the following
websites:
NHTSA,
NHTSA-NCSA. You can also visit our Frequently
Asked Questions page (FAQ) and if you still have
questions,you are welcome to contact us.
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