- The Crash Outcome Data Evaluation System (CODES) Project is an innovative means to access a set of State-based data systems created and maintained for outcome-based decision making related to improving traffic safety.
- CODES is a program facilitated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)’s National Center for Statistics and Analysis (NCSA)’s Office of Data Acquisitions (ODA).
- CODES is one-stop shopping that helps identify, prioritize, and provide analyses needed to fulfill performance measures and reporting requirements
National
The vision of CODES is to reduce the number and severity of traffic crashes by using available data and linkage techniques to provide data analyses to support problem identification, project evaluation, and programmatic decisions.
The mission of CODES is to 1) foster and cultivate the use and analysis of multiple data systems for highway safety applications at the State level, and 2) enable availability of data for applications at the Federal level.
- CODES expands crash data so that components of highway safety can be evaluated in terms of outcomes such as death, injury, injury severity, inpatient charges, MAIS, payer, and costs.
- CODES Grantees use probabilistic linkage methodology to link State person-level crash data to other datasets such as inpatient, ED and EMS.
Maryland
In Maryland, CODES extends beyond the injury component to include multiple aspects of highway safety that can be analyzed individually and in combination with other data sets.
Maryland CODES offers:
- All-In-One Knowledge
- Data Quality Issues
- Best Data for the Job
- Relation Between Data Sets
- Data Owners and Related Limitations
- Framing the Question
Maryland also serves as CODES Program Resource Center (PRC), one of two resource centers in the program. The Utah CODES program, at the University of Utah School of Medicine, serves at the Technical Resource Center. MD CODES is managed at:
University of Maryland, Baltimore
National Study Center for Trauma and EMS
Dr. Patricia Dischinger, Principal Investigator
Tim Kerns, Project Coordinator
The PRC services include:
- Assist in design and coordination of special studies
- Poll states and initiate models
- Coordinate final reports
- Provide administrative support
- Planned web site development and maintenance