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Administrative Data Should Be Questioned [PDF]

Deutsches Ärzteblatt international, 2016
Hospital discharge data (=administrative data) have been used for some time in order to measure the quality of hospital treatments. In this context, Mansky in a recently published review article pointed out the good validity of administrative data. By contrast, a systematic qualitative review found that the sensitivity of quality indicators—drawn from ...
Ernst, Hanisch, Thomas Friedrich, Weigel
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Probabilistic linkage to enhance deterministic algorithms and reduce data linkage errors in hospital administrative data

Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics, 2017
Background: The pseudonymisation algorithm used to link together episodes of care belonging to the same patient in England [Hospital Episode Statistics ID (HESID)] has never undergone any formal evaluation to determine the extent of data linkage error ...
Gareth Hagger-Johnson, Katie Harron, Harvey Goldstein, Robert Aldridge, Ruth Gilbert   +4 more
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A Comparison of The Health Impacts of Individual Level and Area Based Welsh Government Fuel Poverty Schemes

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2020
Introduction Living in a cold and/or damp house is known to increase the risk of morbidity, mortality and excess winter deaths. To reduce fuel poverty in Wales, the Welsh Government developed schemes to provide energy efficiency improvements to those ...
Sian Morrison-Rees, Sarah Lowe
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Coronavirus vaccination coverage and timeliness among people experiencing homelessness in Wales, UK: A population-level analysis of linked healthcare and substance use services data.

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2022
Objectives People experiencing homelessness (PEH) have higher incidence of underlying health conditions that increase the risk of COVID-19 related complications.
Ian Thomas
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Communicating for Impact: Finding the story in your research

International Journal of Population Data Science
Researchers who wish to make an impact need to capture people’s attention and inspire action. But to people outside the sector, population data research can be hard to relate to. Better communication can help us overcome this barrier.
Laura Mulvey, Shayda Kashef, Emma Gordon
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Does change in area-level deprivation, change health outcomes? A latent class growth analysis of population data.

International Journal of Population Data Science
Background While the link between deprivation and health is established, little is known about the association of persistent deprivation or deprivation trajectories over time with adverse health outcomes.
Finola Ferry, Ron McDowell, Michael Rosato, Jamie Murphy, Gerard Leavey   +4 more
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What do register-based studies tell us about migrant mental health? A scoping review

Systematic Reviews, 2017
Background Previous studies investigating the mental health of migrants have shown mixed results. The increased availability of register data has led to a growing number of register-based studies in this research area. This is the first scoping review on
Kishan Patel, Anne Kouvonen, Ciara Close, Ari Väänänen, Dermot O’Reilly, Michael Donnelly   +5 more
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on commencement of psychotropic medications in Northern Ireland: a population-wide, administrative data linkage study.

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2022
Objectives This study aimed to explore changes in commencement of psychotropic medications in first 20 months of the pandemic and associated restrictions in Northern Ireland (NI).
Lisa Kent, Dermot O'Reilly, Aideen Maguire   +2 more
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Kids’ Environment and Health Cohort

International Journal of Population Data Science
This presentation discusses Kids’ Environment and Health Cohort (KEHC), a bespoke Administrative Data Research UK (ADR UK) funded linkage project. KEHC will be a comprehensive and yearly updated dataset for children born in England from 2006 onwards ...
Tolu Adedire, Esther Lewis, Dilly Stephenson, Nathan O'Connor, Leah Quinn, Hannah Goode   +5 more
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Risk of youth homelessness after contact with the children’s social care system: a population-wide, retrospective cohort study in Northern Ireland

International Journal of Population Data Science
Background Aging out of the care system strongly predicts later homelessness, yet little is known about how levels of contact with children’s social care influence youth homelessness, or whether risk peaks at particular ages.
Sarah McKenna, Lisa Kent, Emma Ross, Aideen Maguire, Dermot O'Reilly, Michael Donnelly   +5 more
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