Sharing health data could avoid duplication of effort in data collection, reduce unnecessary costs in future studies, and encourage collaboration and data flow within the scientific community. Several repositories from national institutions or research teams have making their datasets available. These data are mainly aggregated at spatial or temporal level, or dedicated to a specific field. The objective of this work is to propose a standardized storage and description of open datasets for research purposes. For this, we selected 8 publicly accessible datasets, covering the fields of demographics, employment, education and psychiatry. Then, we studied the format, nomenclature (i.e., files and variables names, modalities of recurrent qualitative variables) and descriptions of these datasets and we proposed on common and standardized format and description. We made available these datasets in an open gitlab repository. For each dataset, we proposed the raw data file in its original format, the cleaned data file in csv format, the variables description, the data management script and the descriptive statistics. Statistics are generated according to the type of variables previously documented. After one year of use, we will evaluate with the users if the standardization of the data sets is relevant and how they use the dataset in real life. 

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OpenDataPsy: An Open-Data Repository with Standardized Storage and Description for Research in Psychiatry

Parental preferences for pediatric surgical facility centralization: insights from a discrete choice experiment

Introduction Many recent studies have investigated the hospital volume-outcome relationship in surgery. In some cases, the results have prompted the centralization of surgical activity. However, the methodologies and interpretations differ markedly from one study to another. The objective of the present scoping review was to describe the various features used to assess the volume-outcome relationship: the analyzed datasets, study population, outcome, covariates, confounders, volume modalities, and statistical methods. Methods and analysis The review was conducted according to a study protocol published in BMJ Open in 2020. Two authors (both of whom had helped to design the study protocol) screened publications independently according to the title, the abstract and then the full text. To ensure exhaustivity, all the papers included by each reviewer went through to the next step. Interpretation The 403 included studies covered 90 types of surgery, 61 types of outcome, and 72 covariates or potential confounders. 191 (47.5%) studies focussed on oncological surgery and 37.8% focussed visceral or digestive tract surgery. Overall, 86.6% of the studies found a statistically significant volume-outcome relationship, although the findings differed from one type of surgery to another. Furthermore, the types of outcome and the covariates were highly diverse. The majority of studies were performed in Western countries, and oncological and visceral surgical procedures were over-represented; this might limit the generalizability and comparability of the studies' results.

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Assessing the hospital volume-outcome relationship in surgery: a scoping review.

Introduction Even if a positive volume-outcome correlation in surgery is mostly admitted in many surgical fields, the various ways to assess this relationship make it difficult for researchers and policymakers to use it. Our aim is therefore to provide an overview of the way hospital volume-outcome relationship was assessed. Through this overview, our goal is to identify potential gaps in the assessment of this relationship, to help researchers who want to pursue work in this field and, ultimately, to help policy makers interpret such analyses. Methods and analysis This review will be conducted using the six stages of the scoping review method: identifying the research question, searching for relevant studies, selecting studies, data extraction, collating, summarising and reporting the results and concluding. This review will address all the key questions used to assess the volume-outcome relationship in surgery. Primary research papers investigating the hospital volume-outcome relationship from 2009 will be included. Studies only looking at surgeons’ volume-outcome relationship or studies were the volume variable is not individualisable will be excluded. Both MEDLINE and Scopus will be searched along with grey literature. Two researchers will perform all the stages of the review: screen the titles and abstracts, review the full text of selected articles to determine final inclusions and extract the data. The results will be summarised quantitatively using numerical counts. Ethical considerations and dissemination Reviews of published articles are considered secondary analysis and do not need ethical approval. The findings will be disseminated through multiple channels like conferences and peer-reviewed journals.

https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/bmjopen/10/10/e038201.full.pdf

Assessing the hospital volume-outcome relationship in surgery: a scoping review protocol.

Mostly studied at the individual level, the analysis of immigrants’ health status at a populational level may provide a different perspective to investigate, including social determinants as part of the explanation of the relationship between them and health status in France. We analyzed freely accessible databases curated by French public bodies. The dependent variables were death rate and mean age at death. Immigrant rate and covariates associated with either of the outcomes were explored in univariate and multivariate models. Linear models were used to explain the mean age at death, whereas tobit models were used to explain the death rate. The immigrant rate varied markedly from one department to another, as did healthcare accessibility, population’s age profile, and economic covariates. Considering univariate models, almost all the studied covariates were significantly associated with comes. The immigrant rate was associated with a lower death rate and a lower age at death. In multivariate models, the immigrant rate was no longer associated with age at death but was still negatively associated with the death rate. In France, the departments with a higher proportion of immigrants were those with a lower death rate, possibly because immigrants are attracted to economically thriving areas.

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The Relationship between the Immigrant Rate and Health Status in the General Population in France.

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Assessing the hospital volume-outcome relationship in surgery: a scoping review protocol.

The Relationship between the Immigrant Rate and Health Status in the General Population in France.