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An Introduction to Probabilistic Record Linkage with a Focus on Linkage Processing for WTC Registries

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020
Since its post-World War II inception, the science of record linkage has grown exponentially and is used across industrial, governmental, and academic agencies.
J. Asher, Dean M. Resnick, J. Brite, R. Brackbill, J. Cone   +4 more
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Sociodemographic differences in linkage error: an examination of four large-scale datasets

BMC Health Services Research, 2018
Background Record linkage is an important tool for epidemiologists and health planners. Record linkage studies will generally contain some level of residual record linkage error, where individual records are either incorrectly marked as belonging to the ...
Sean Randall, Adrian Brown, James Boyd, Rainer Schnell, Christian Borgs, Anna Ferrante   +5 more
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A Comprehensive Systematic Review of Data Linkage Publications on Diabetes in Australia

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
AimsOur study aimed to identify the common themes, knowledge gaps and to evaluate the quality of data linkage research on diabetes in Australia.MethodsThis systematic review was developed in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic ...
Ngan T. T. Dinh, Ngan T. T. Dinh, Ingrid A. Cox, Barbara de Graaff, Julie A. Campbell, Brian Stokes, Andrew J. Palmer, Andrew J. Palmer   +7 more
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Real-time linkage: when is near enough good enough?

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2017
Objectives Timely data on the health and vital status of study participants is important for cohort management and patient recruitment processes in addition to traditional observational research. We have investigated the potential to modify data sourcing
Katrina Irvine, Jennifer Williamson, Victoria Pye   +2 more
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A hybrid approach to record linkage using a combination of deterministic and probabilistic methodology

J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc., 2020
OBJECTIVE The disjointed healthcare system and the nonexistence of a universal patient identifier across systems necessitates accurate record linkage (RL).
Toan C Ong, L. Duca, M. Kahn, T. Crume
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Privacy preserved incremental record linkage

Journal of Big Data, 2022
Using an incremental approach to solve the record linkage problem is a relatively new research area. In incremental record linkage, every inserted record is compared with some existing clusters of records based on its blocking key value.
Shahidul Islam Khan, Abir Bin Ayub Khan, Abu Sayed Md Latiful Hoque   +2 more
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Evolving population data linkage services to transform large-scale biobanking services

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2018
Introduction Many population data linkage centres have been established to provide a mechanism for making linked administrative data available to approved third parties within robust governance frameworks.
Katie Irvine, Vivienna Ong, Simon Cooper, Sarah Thackway   +3 more
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Record linkage for Routinely Collected Health Data in an African Health Information Exchange.

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2022
Objectives To describe the record linkage system that is currently implemented at the Provincial Health Data Centre (PHDC) in the Western Cape, South Africa To assess its output to date with respect to types of matches and duplicates trends To ...
Themba Mutemaringa, Alexa Heekes, Andrew Boulle, Nicki Tiffin   +3 more
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Examining the quality of record linkage process using nationwide Brazilian administrative databases to build a large birth cohort

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2020
Background Research using linked routine population-based data collected for non-research purposes has increased in recent years because they are a rich and detailed source of information.
Daniela Almeida, David Gorender, M. Y. Ichihara, Samila Sena, Luan Menezes, George Caique Gouveia Barbosa, R. Fiaccone, E. Paixão, Robespierre Pita, M. Barreto   +9 more
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Evaluating privacy-preserving record linkage using cryptographic long-term keys and multibit trees on large medical datasets

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2017
Background Integrating medical data using databases from different sources by record linkage is a powerful technique increasingly used in medical research.
Adrian P. Brown, Christian Borgs, Sean M. Randall, Rainer Schnell   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source