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Probabilistic linkage to enhance deterministic algorithms and reduce data linkage errors in hospital administrative data

Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics, 2017
Background: The pseudonymisation algorithm used to link together episodes of care belonging to the same patient in England [Hospital Episode Statistics ID (HESID)] has never undergone any formal evaluation to determine the extent of data linkage error ...
Gareth Hagger-Johnson, Katie Harron, Harvey Goldstein, Robert Aldridge, Ruth Gilbert   +4 more
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The burden of cancers associated with HIV in the South African public health sector, 2004–2014: a record linkage study

Infectious Agents and Cancer, 2019
The impact of South Africa’s high human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) burden on cancer risk is not fully understood, particularly in the context of antiretroviral treatment (ART) availability.
T. Dhokotera, J. Bohlius, A. Spoerri, M. Egger, J. Ncayiyana, V. Olago, Elvira Singh, M. Sengayi   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Demystifying probabilistic linkage

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2018
Many of the distinctions made between probabilistic and deterministic linkage are misleading. While these two approaches to record linkage operate in different ways and can produce different outputs, the distinctions between them are more a result of how
James C Doidge, Katie Harron
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Precise and Fast Cryptanalysis for Bloom Filter Based Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2019
Being able to identify records that correspond to the same entity across diverse databases is an increasingly important step in many data analytics projects.
P. Christen, Thilina Ranbaduge, Dinusha Vatsalan, R. Schnell   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Establishment of an Australian National Master Linkage Key (NMLK) between AIHW Health Linkage spine (HLS) and Jurisdictional Master Linkage Keys (MLK) - NSW example

International Journal of Population Data Science
Objectives This paper describes a Population Health Research Network project establishing the NMLK as a national linkage system utilising an enduring linkage between national and jurisdictional linkage spines.
Elena Ougrinovski, Clinton Paine, Natalie Cooper, Pooja Nair, Michael Smith, Rama Devi Voruganti, Merran Smith, Felicity Flack   +7 more
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The unpredictably eruptive dynamics of spruce budworm populations in eastern Canada

Population Ecology, EarlyView.
We examine historical population data for spruce budworm from several locations through the period 1930–1997, and use density‐dependent recruitment curves to test whether the pattern of population growth over time is more consistent with Royama's (1984; Ecological Monographs 54:429–462) linear R(t) model of harmonic oscillation at Green River New ...
Barry J. Cooke, Jacques Régnière
wiley   +1 more source

The association between hysterectomy and ovarian cancer risk: A population-based record-linkage study [PDF]

, 2019
Background: Recent studies have called into question the long-held belief that hysterectomy without oophorectomy protects against ovarian cancer. This population-based longitudinal record-linkage study aimed to explore this relationship, overall and by ...
Dixon-Suen, Suzanne C, Jordan, Susan J, Stewart, Louise M, Tuesley, Karen, Webb, Penelope M, Wilson, Louise F   +5 more
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Network topology drives population temporal variability in experimental habitat networks

Population Ecology, EarlyView.
Habitat patches connected by dispersal pathways form habitat networks. We explored how network topology affects population outcomes in laboratory experiments using a model species (Daphnia carinata). Central habitat nodes in complex lattice networks exhibited lower temporal variability in population sizes, suggesting they support more stable ...
Yiwen Xu, J. Angus Webb, William D. Bovill, Elise L. King   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

SMERED: A Bayesian Approach to Graphical Record Linkage and De-duplication [PDF]

, 2016
We propose a novel unsupervised approach for linking records across arbitrarily many files, while simultaneously detecting duplicate records within files. Our key innovation is to represent the pattern of links between records as a {\em bipartite} graph,
Fienberg, SE, Hall, R, Steorts, RC
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Geographic variation in walking activity in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum

Population Ecology, EarlyView.
This study examined whether there is geographic variation in field populations, focusing on the moving activity in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum. Results showed significant differences in moving activity among field populations but no correlation with latitude or meteorological factors.
Kentarou Matsumura
wiley   +1 more source