Objectives The evidence-base for inter-related paternal and child health trajectories is not supported by linked, routinely collected administrative data in England.
Irina Lut +4 more
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Introduction Early alcohol use has significant association with poor health outcomes. Individual risk factors around early alcohol use have been identified, but a holistic, data-driven investigation into health and household environmental factors on ...
Amrita Bandyopadhyay +7 more
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Pain research using Veterans Health Administration electronic and administrative data sources
Health services researchers are using Veterans Health Administration (VHA) electronic health record (EHR) data sources to examine the prevalence, treatment, and outcomes of pain among Veterans in VHA care. Little guidance currently exists on using these data; thus, findings may vary depending on the methods, data sources, and definitions used.
Erica A, Abel +3 more
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Linking routinely collected social work, education and health data to enable monitoring of the health and health care of school-aged children in state care (‘looked after children’) in Scotland: a national demonstration project [PDF]
Background and objectives: Children in state care (‘looked after children’) have poorer health than children who are not looked after. Recent developments in Scotland and elsewhere have aimed to improve services and outcomes for looked after children ...
Clark, D. +10 more
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Validity of autism diagnoses using administrative health data
It is necessary to monitor autism prevalence in order to plan education support and health services for affected children. This study was conducted to assess the accuracy of administrative health databases for autism diagnoses. Three administrative health databases from the province of Nova Scotia were used to identify diagnoses of autism spectrum ...
L, Dodds +6 more
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Assessing preventable hospitalisation indicators (APHID): protocol for a data-linkage study using cohort study and administrative data [PDF]
Introduction Potentially preventable hospitalisation (PPH) has been adopted widely by international health systems as an indicator of the accessibility and overall effectiveness of primary care. The Assessing Preventable Hospitalisation InDicators (APHID)
Blyth, F.M. +5 more
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Using Routinely Collected Administrative Data in Public Health Research: Geocoding Alcohol Outlet Data [PDF]
We describe our process of geocoding alcohol outlets to create a national longitudinal exposure dataset for Wales, United Kingdom from 2006 to 2011. We investigated variation in the availability of data items and the quality of alcohol outlet addresses ...
A Ellaway +40 more
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How do you interpret a billion primary care records?
Background Research into General Practitioner (GP) records is relatively straightforward when it comes to establishing the prescribing of a particular drug or a specific disease group, but what if you want to use it to make more general inferences about ...
Martin Heaven +4 more
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Consenting to health record linkage: evidence from a multi-purpose longitudinal survey of a general population [PDF]
Background: The British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) is the first long-running UK longitudinal survey with a non-medical focus and a sample covering the whole age range to have asked for permission to link to a range of administrative health records ...
AR Tate +18 more
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Chronic Kidney Disease Among Agricultural Workers in Taiwan: A Nationwide Population-Based Study
Introduction: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) in agricultural communities is a significant public health issue. We aimed to investigate the epidemiology of CKD among Taiwanese farmers and its association with outdoor heat exposure.
Che-Jui Chang, Hsiao-Yu Yang
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