Developing a Standardized and Reusable Method to Link Distributed Health Plan Databases to the National Death Index: Methods Development Study Protocol

Candace C Fuller   ¹ , MPH, PhD ;   Wei Hua   ² , MSc, MHS, MD, PhD ;   Charles E Leonard   ³ , PharmD, MSCE ;   Andrew Mosholder   ² , MD, MPH ;   Ryan Carnahan   ⁴ , PharmD, MS ;   Sarah Dutcher   ² , PhD, MS ;   Katelyn King   ¹ , BA ;   Andrew B Petrone   ¹ , MPH ;   Robert Rosofsky   ⁵ , MA ;   Laura A Shockro   ¹ , BA ;   Jessica Young   ¹ , PhD ;   Jea Young Min   ⁶ , PharmD, MPH, PhD ;   Ingrid Binswanger   ⁷ , MD, MPH, MS ;   Denise Boudreau   ⁸ , RPh, PhD, MS ;   Marie R Griffin   ⁶ , MD, MPH ;   Margaret A Adgent   ⁶ , MSPH, PhD ;   Jennifer Kuntz   ⁹ , MS, PhD ;   Cheryl McMahill-Walraven   ¹⁰ , MSW, PhD ;   Pamala A Pawloski   ¹¹ , PharmD ;   Robert Ball   ² , MD, MPH, ScM ;   Sengwee Toh   ¹ , ScD

¹ Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

² Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, United States

³ Center for Pharmacoepidemiology Research and Training, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics Perelman School of Medicine,, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States

⁴ University of Iowa, College of Public Health, Iowa City, IA, United States

⁵ Health Information Systems Consulting, Milton, MA, United States

⁶ Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States

⁷ Kaiser Permanente Colorado, Aurora, CO, United States

⁸ Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute and University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States

⁹ Kaiser Permanente Northwest, Portland, OR, United States

¹⁰ Aetna, a CVS Health company, Blue Bell, PA, United States

¹¹ HealthPartners Institute, Bloomington, MN, United States