Early Intervention Colorado (EI-CO) Participant Characteristics, Service Use, and Outcomes, Colorado, 2014-2016

Part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act authorizes states, with the incentive of federal financial support, to create Early Intervention (EI) systems, which is a primary source of rehabilitation (e.g., physical, occupational, and speech therapy) services for infants and toddlers with, or at risk for, developmental delays. Having worked with two EI Colorado (EI-CO) programs that employed electronic documentation, the researchers sought to leverage their electronic administrative data in order to examine social disparities in EI service use, including specific rehabilitation services. The dataset for this data archiving project was generated in collaboration with a large, urban EI program in Colorado, a community partner for an NIH/NCMRR R03 study. This academic-community research partnership provided researchers with access to an urban EI program's electronic administrative database; The researchers' goal was to make these data available for further EI research. Therefore, a database was created and a number of variables were derived that could be of importance to EI stakeholders when conducting clinical queries for quality improvement. Examples of derived variables include EI service use intensity (i.e., hours per month) for all EI services, as well as discipline-specific (e.g., physical or occupational therapy) service use. The researchers obtained permission from the partnering EI agency to archive their EI program data through this project. The dataset included as part of this collection includes 2045 cases for 44 variables; demographic variables include: race, ethnicity, language, sex, age, and developmental condition type.

《残疾人教育法案》之C部分授权各州在国家财政支持激励下建立早期干预（EI）体系，该体系为发育迟缓或存在发育迟缓风险的婴幼儿提供康复服务（例如，物理治疗、职业治疗和语言治疗）的主要来源。研究人员在与两个采用电子文档的EI科罗拉多（EI-CO）项目合作的基础上，旨在利用其电子行政数据进行研究，以考察EI服务使用中的社会不平等现象，包括具体的康复服务。本数据存档项目的数据集是在与科罗拉多州一个大型城市EI项目合作下生成的，该项目是NIH/NCMRR R03研究的一个社区合作伙伴。这种学术与社区研究伙伴关系为研究人员提供了访问城市EI项目电子行政数据库的机会；研究人员的目标是使这些数据可供进一步EI研究使用。因此，创建了一个数据库，并衍生出一系列对EI利益相关者在进行临床查询以改善服务质量时可能具有重要意义的变量。衍生变量的示例包括所有EI服务的使用强度（即每月小时数），以及特定学科（例如，物理治疗或职业治疗）的服务使用。研究人员已获得合作EI机构许可，通过本项目存档其EI项目数据。本收集项目包含的数据集包括2045个案例和44个变量；人口统计学变量包括：种族、民族、语言、性别、年龄和发育状况类型。