Accurate linking of medical records from different sources, known as patient matching, plays a critical role in patient safety and quality of medical care, but has proven difficult to accomplish. A ...
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Integrating patient data from disparate health systems holds immense potential for research, public health surveillance and clinical decision support. Record linkage identifies records that pertain to ...
An n - 1 deterministic linkage strategy was used successfully to merge dental and medical data from a healthcare plan and a dental insurance carrier. We examined a variety of administrative data ...
Suggested Citation: "6 Data Linkage to Supplement Health Surveys." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Toward a 21st Century National Data Infrastructure: Enhancing Survey ...
This paper considers the problem of record linkage between a household-level survey and an establishment-level frame in the absence of unique identifiers. Linkage between frames in this setting is ...
Presentation: Robert Dorrington, University of Cape Town, Methods for estimating the numbers of births: Lessons from an investigation of the age distribution of younger people in the 2011 South ...