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CSTE VAPI- Forum for States with Legalized Recreational Marijuana

Megan Toe, CSTEMeredith Lichtenstein, CSTEJason WilkenKatie BrownMia Israel, Program Analyst at CSTEKatelyn Hall - COLaurel BoydJonathan FalkAmanda FaulknerMegan IrvingSteven Rekant (OR), EIS OfficerMichelle HolshueLinnae BairdVictoria LeGardeTasha Poissant +6 others
Pitch by Steven Rekant (OR) ·

💡 Pooling data - any reservations?

Hi folks,

Thanks for joining this group. There are a bunch of questions we've been kicking around in Oregon. Here, the focus is obviously about the ways that cases in our states, with legalized recreational cannabis, are similar or different to those in other states. It also seems like most of our states have smaller numbers than states that have already published, so pooling our data may be the best way to go.

Before we start to pool data or ask for commitments, I wanted to see if you have any particular reservations about doing so.

On the call, we discussed that legality is the same across states, but the regulatory and economic systems are set up a bit differently from state to state. I believe this is an important point, but that it is ultimately not enough to sink a project like this. We'll just have to have a robust discussion of limitations :-)

So, do you have any strong doubts or reservations about pooling data?

Comments & Events

Katelyn Hall - CO Katelyn Hall - CO
In Colorado we may have to get approval to pool that data, but as long as Colorado specific numbers are not called out I think the approval will be easy. If we want to call out specific states it may make things more difficult.

Katelyn
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Rita Seith Rita Seith
What variables/data are you thinking about pooling?
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Steven Rekant (OR), EIS Officer Steven Rekant (OR), EIS Officer
Good question! I don't think we want to exactly mimic the reports from states like NC, UT, IL, and WI, but we'll obviously want to present a lot of the same data, both on demographics and exposures. It would be interesting to know where THC-containing products were obtained by cases, especially since regulated, licensed sources of THC-containing vaping products are available in our states.

Perhaps other folks have more thoughts.
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Michelle Holshue Michelle Holshue
Hi all,

I am working on a draft analysis plan which will include some possible data tables for discussion. Depending on how busy call goes this weekend, I may have something to look at early next week.
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Laurel Boyd Laurel Boyd
One idea: as we look at discharge data in Oregon to get a sense as to background illness, one problem that we're running into is understanding how to define cases for surveillance purposes (that is, what diagnosis codes to use when querying the data). I wonder if others think it would be helpful to think about sharing/pooling diagnosis codes for this type of analysis? For hospitalized cases?
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