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BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2020 Background Record linkage is the process of identifying and combining records about the same individual from two or more different datasets. While there are many open source and commercial data linkage tools, the volume and complexity of currently ...
George C. G. Barbosa +12 more
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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2023 Background Cesarean section (CS) rates are increasing worldwide and are associated with negative maternal and child health outcomes when performed without medical indication. However, there is still limited knowledge about the association between high CS
Aline S. Rocha +12 more
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BMC Medicine, 2022 Background Preterm birth (PTB) is a syndrome resulting from a complex list of underlying causes and factors, and whether these risk factors differ in the context of prior PTB history is less understood.
Aline S. Rocha +11 more
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Harvesting metadata in clinical care: a crosswalk between FHIR, OMOP, CDISC and openEHR metadata
Scientific Data, 2022 Metadata describe information about data source, type of creation, structure, status and semantics and are prerequisite for preservation and reuse of medical data.
Caroline Bönisch +2 more
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BMC Public Health, 2023 Background Indigenous people have historically suffered devastating impacts from epidemics and continue to have lower access to healthcare and be especially vulnerable to respiratory infections.
Julia M. Pescarini +12 more
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International Journal of Population Data Science, 2022 Objectives Administrative data are primarily collected for operational processes and these processes can lead to sources of bias that may not be adequately considered by researchers.
Richard Shaw +9 more
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Classification algorithm for congenital Zika Syndrome: characterizations, diagnosis and validation
Scientific Reports, 2021 Zika virus was responsible for the microcephaly epidemic in Brazil which began in October 2015 and brought great challenges to the scientific community and health professionals in terms of diagnosis and classification.
Rafael V. Veiga +12 more
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Characteristics of mental health service use of Brazilian children using routine health records
International Journal of Population Data Science, 2022 Background To investigate the clinical epidemiological characteristics of a large data set of visits to outpatient children mental health services in Brazil, as well as to identify relevant relationships between age, sex and three common mental ...
Jacyra Araujo +4 more
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Integrated genome sizing (IGS) approach for the parallelization of whole genome analysis
BMC Bioinformatics, 2018 Background The use of whole genome sequence has increased recently with rapid progression of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies. However, storing raw sequence reads to perform large-scale genome analysis pose hardware challenges.
Peter Sona +13 more
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SSM: Population Health, 2021 This paper investigates the associations of income segregation with homicide mortality across 152 cities in Brazil. Despite GDP increases, an important proportion of the Brazilian population experiences poverty and extreme poverty.
Maria Izabel dos Santos +9 more
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