Medical record linkage in health information systems by approximate string matching and clustering [PDF]
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2005 Background Multiplication of data sources within heterogeneous healthcare information systems always results in redundant information, split among multiple databases. Our objective is to detect exact and approximate duplicates within identity records, in
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A practical approach to achieve private medical record linkage in light of public resources. [PDF]
J Am Med Inform Assoc, 2013 Kuzu M +4 more
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International Journal of Population Data Science, 2021 Background Linkage of demographic, health, and developmental administrative data can enrich population-based surveillance and research on developmental and educational outcomes.
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Automatic Linkage of Medical and Vital Registration Records [PDF]
Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 1963 The desirability of being able to link two or more records of vital or medical events occurring to the same individual is largely self-evident. In clinical practice it is often informative to consult past records of hospital or other treatment and it is often useful to be able to locate subsequent records in order to follow up patients treated at some ...
Alexander Smith
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Hospital admission rates and emergency department use in relation to glycated hemoglobin in people with diabetes mellitus: a linkage study using electronic medical record and administrative data in Ontario [PDF]
CMAJ Open, 2017 BACKGROUND The Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network (CPCSSN) collects extensive data on primary care patients but it currently does not gather reliable information on outcomes in other settings.
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Statistical supervised meta-ensemble algorithm for medical record linkage
Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2019 Identifying unique patients across multiple care facilities or services is a major challenge in providing continuous care and undertaking health research. Identifying and linking patients without compromising privacy and security is an emerging issue in the big data era.
Kha Vo, J. Jonnagaddala, S. Liaw
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J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc., 2019 OBJECTIVE Linking emergency medical services (EMS) electronic patient care reports (ePCRs) to emergency department (ED) records can provide clinicians access to vital information that can alter management.
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Reconstruction of pseudonymized patient-trajectories in Austria's stroke cohort using medical record-linkage of in-patient routine documentation to establish a nation-wide acute stroke cohort of 102,107 pseudonymized patients between 2015 and 2019. [PDF]
Eur Stroke J, 2022 Heidinger M +7 more
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Journal of Translational Medicine, 2022 Background The low number of patients suffering from any given rare diseases poses a difficult problem for medical research: With the exception of some specialized biobanks and disease registries, potential study participants’ information are disjoint ...
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Quality of IVF status registration in the Estonian Medical Birth Registry: a national record linkage study [PDF]
Reproductive Health, 2018 BackgroundInformation regarding in vitro fertilization (IVF) as a pregnancy risk factor (yes/ no) is stored in each birth record of the Estonian Medical Birth Registry (EMBR).
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