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Emergency department visits for acute gastrointestinal illness after a major water pipe break in 2010

Published by U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD) | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | Metadata Last Checked: August 02, 2025 | Last Modified: 2018-02-27
Data consist of medical records for hospitalizations including reasons for admission, and location. This dataset is not publicly accessible because: EPA cannot release personally identifiable information regarding living individuals, according to the Privacy Act and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). This dataset contains information about human research subjects. Because there is potential to identify individual participants and disclose personal information, either alone or in combination with other datasets, individual level data are not appropriate to post for public access. Restricted access may be granted to authorized persons by contacting the party listed. It can be accessed through the following means: Data is restricted to investigators due to potential PII. Format: Data are stored in SAS, MS Excel with meta data and codeboks. This dataset is associated with the following publication: Lin, C., D. Richardson, E. Hilborn, H. Weinberg, L. Engel, and T. Wade. Emergency department visits for acute gastrointestinal illness after a major water pipe break in 2010. EPIDEMIOLOGY. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 30(6): 893-900, (2019).

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