Our projects and publications:the Integrated Data Research Group

Members of the Integrated Data Research Group are currently working on the following projects:

• Addressing avoidable harm suffered by Māori babies
  Contact: James Stanley
• Employment, mental health service use, and suicidal behaviours in New Zealand
  Contact: Ruth Cunningham or Sheree Gibb
• Housing First
  Contact: Nevil Pierse
• Integrated data to address inequitable health outcomes, Healthier Lives National Science Challenge
  Contact: Sheree Gibb or Andrea Teng
• Long-term outcomes for Medically Fragile babies
  Contact: Nevil Pierse
• Long Term outcomes of Periviable births
  Contact: Nevil Pierse
• Māoriori and bipolar disorder
  Contact: James Stanley
• Multimorbidity: the most common chronic condition of all
  Contact: James Stanley
• Pathways to First Episode Psychosis and Outcomes In Māoriori
  Contact: Ruth Cunningham or Sheree Gibb
• The health of New Zealanders with disability
  Contact: Ruth Cunningham or Sheree Gibb
• The impact of housing tenure on well being
  Contact: Nevil Pierse
• The safety and stability of early home environments
  Contact: Nevil Pierse

Selected publications

Gurney, J, Stanley, J, Sarfati, D (2018). The M3 multimorbidity index outperforms both Charlson and Elixhauser indices when predicting adverse outcomes in people with diabetes. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 99, 144-152.

Gurney, JK, Stanley, J, Rumball-Smith, J, York, S, Sarfati, D (2018) Post-operative death following lower limb amputation in a national prevalent cohort of patients with diabetes. Diabetes Care, 41, 1204-122.

Oliver, J., Pierse, N., Williamson, D. A., & Baker, M. G. (2018). Estimating the likely true changes in rheumatic fever incidence using two data sources. Epidemiology & Infection, 146(2), 265-275. doi: 10.1017/S0950268817002734

Stanley, J., Semper, K, Millar, E, Sarfati, D (2018) Epidemiology of multimorbidity in New Zealand: A cross-sectional study using national-level hospital and pharmaceutical data. BMJ Open, 8 (5) e021689

Zhao J., S. Gibb, R. Jackson S. Mehta, D. Exeter (2018). Constructing whole of population cohorts for health and social research using the New Zealand Integrated Data Infrastructure. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, epub ahead of print, https://doi.org/10.1111/1753-6405.12781

Oliver, J., Foster, T., Kvalsvig, A., Williamson, D. A., Baker, M. G., & Pierse, N. (2017). Risk of rehospitalisation and death for vulnerable New Zealand children. Archives of Disease in Childhood. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2017-312671

Stanley, J, Sarfati, D (2017). The new Measuring Multimorbidity index predicted mortality better than Charlson and Elixhauser indices amongst the general population. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology; 92, 99-110.

Teng, A. M., Blakely, T., Ivory, V., Kingham, S., & Cameron, V. (2017). Living in areas with different levels of earthquake damage and association with risk of cardiovascular disease: A cohort-linkage study. Lancet Planetary Health, 1(6), e242-e253. doi: 10.1016/S2542-5196(17)30101-8

Disney, G., Teng, A., Atkinson, J., Wilson, N., & Blakely, T. (2017). Changing ethnic inequalities in mortality in New Zealand over 30 years: Linked cohort studies with 68.9 million person-years of follow-up. Population Health Metrics, 15, 15. doi: 10.1186/s12963-017-0132-6

Cunningham, R., Peterson, D., Sarfati, D., Stanley, J., & Collings, S. (2014). Premature mortality in adults using New Zealand psychiatric services. New Zealand Medical Journal, 127(1394). Retrieved from https://www.nzma.org.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/34658/content.pdf