Spatial Errors in Automated Geocoding of Incident Locations in Australian Suicide Mortality Data

Conclusion: Suicide incidents that occur at nonresidential addresses are being erroneously geocoded to centralized fall-back locations in autogeocoding processes, which can lead to misidentification of suicide clusters. Our findings provide insights toward defining the nature of the problem and refining geocoding processes, so that suicide data can be used reliably for the detection of suicide hotspots. See video abstract at, http://links.lww.com/EDE/B862.
Source: Epidemiology - Category: Epidemiology Tags: Psychosocial Epidemiology Source Type: research