J Am Med Inform Assoc
November 2024
Objective: This communication presents the results of defining a tribal health jurisdiction by a combination of tribal affiliation (TA) and case address.
Materials And Methods: Through a county-tribal partnership, Geographic Information System (GIS) software and custom code were used to extract tribal data from county data by identifying reservation addresses in county extracts of COVID-19 case records from December 30, 2019, to December 31, 2022 (n = 374 653) and COVID-19 vaccination records from December 1, 2020, to April 18, 2023 (n = 2 355 058).
Results: The tool identified 1.