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Linkage in medical records and bioinformatics data

International Journal of Information and Decision Sciences, 2013
Multiple records for different visits of patients result in redundant information among multiple data sources. We can increase the amount of information available for population units required by stand-alone and distributed databases by matching and merging duplicate records.
Shen Lu, Richard S. Segall
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A Medical Record Linkage Analysis of Abortion Underreporting

Family Planning Perspectives, 1996
Inaccuracy in women's reports of their abortion histories affects many areas of interest to reproductive health professionals and researchers. The identification of characteristics that affect the accuracy of reporting is essential for the improvement of data collection methods.
J R, Udry, M, Gaughan, P J, Schwingl, B J, van den Berg   +3 more
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Medical Record Linkage))

Methods of Information in Medicine, 1969
Die kurzgefaßte Ubersicht versucht die Vorstellung zu reditfertigen, daß es möglicb., ökonomisch und im öffentlichen Interesse sei, einem Teil der Fülle versctaiedenartigster medizinischer Informationen, die über jeden einzelnen Mensdien schriftlich niedergelegt sind, in einem einzigen Satz von stetig ergänzten Unterlagen für ganze Populationen ...
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New opportunities for drug outcomes research in cancer patients: The linkage of the Eindhoven Cancer Registry and the PHARMO Record Linkage System

European Journal of Cancer, 2010
Background: insight into co-morbidity and treatment effects is pivotal to improve quality of care for cancer patients. Objectives: To determine whether linkage of the Eindhoven Cancer Registry (ECR) and the PHARMO Record Linkage System (RLS) was ...
Myrthe P P Van Herk-Sukel, Valery E P P Lemmens, Ron M C Herings   +2 more
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Secure pseudonymisation for privacy-preserving probabilistic record linkage [PDF]

Journal of Information Security and Applications, 2017
Record linkage is becoming an increasingly important tool in many areas of research – particularly medical research, where the relevant data often reside in more than one location.
Duncan Smith
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Survival during and after hospitalization: a medical record linkage

International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 1999
In Sweden, hospital stays, deaths, sick‐ listings and censuses have long been stored on electronic media. The purpose of the study was to apply post‐hospital survival measures to hospitals having differing degrees of specialization by linking existing data in censuses and in‐patient registers.
B, Svartbo, L, Olov Bygren, T, Gunnarsson, L, Steen, M, Ribe   +4 more
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Incidence of cancer and antidepressant medication: Record linkage study

International Journal of Cancer, 2009
AbstractThe consumption of antidepressants, especially selective serotonine reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) has been increasing. Because a large fraction of the population is exposed, even a small excess of risk with respect to cancer should be considered.
Jari, Haukka, Risto, Sankila, Timo, Klaukka, Jouko, Lonnqvist, Leo, Niskanen, Antti, Tanskanen, Kristian, Wahlbeck, Jari, Tiihonen   +7 more
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FOLLOW-UP OF VASECTOMY USING MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE

American Journal of Epidemiology, 1978
The authors report the findings from an on-going of 1764 vasectomized men followed up by means of the Scottish medical record linkage system for a total of 4500 man-years after operation. The authors view the results so far as reassuring regarding the safety of vasectomy, although the mean length of follow-up (2.6 years) is still short.
M J, Goldacre, J A, Clarke, M A, Heasman, M P, Vessey   +3 more
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Methodology for Record Linkage

International Journal of Knowledge Society Research, 2015
This paper presents a methodology for linking records from several sources each source might contain, missing information. This assumption of missing values has been made, without loss of generality, as the authors has observed that missing information is part of the nature of data in the health domain and also in other domains such as social sciences.
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Record Linkage of Crashes with Injuries and Medical Cost in Puerto Rico

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2020
Cost considerations are critical in the analysis and prevention of traffic crashes. Integration of cost data into crash datasets facilitates the crash-cost analyses with all their related attributes. It is, however, a challenging task because of the lack of availability of unique identifiers across the databases and because of privacy and ...
Josie D. Bianchi Santiago, Héctor Colón Jordán, Didier Valdés   +2 more
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