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CODES is a program sponsored by:
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CODES originated when federal regulations required the National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to report
to Congress on the benefits of seat belt and motorcycle
helmet use. To obtain the crash and injury information needed
for this report, NHTSA sponsored the CODES project and awarded
grants to Maine, Hawaii, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania,
Utah and Wisconsin in 1992. Several additional states have
since been added. Click here
to see the map of all the states involved and here
for the national CODES homepage.
Maine received a second grant
in 1998 to institutionalize the project into a State agency
(Department of Human Services) and a third grant is being
used to network Maine's CODES data with that of other states.
The current participating Maine state agencies include:
CODES links crash data with medical
information to help determine the outcome of motor vehicle
crashes. The current Maine project includes crash, road,
emergency medical services, hospital inpatient medical outcomes
and cost data. Due to privacy issues centered about medical
data, a probabilistic linkage technique is used to exclude
the names of individuals. Data elements such as time, location,
gender and date of birth are used to link records, thereby
ensuring the privacy of individuals.
Sample types of information
that are identified include populations at risk, high cost
injuries, high crash cost types and locations, driver behavior
issues, the effectiveness of emergency medical services
and effective hospital routing. |
