منابع مشابه
Record Linkage
R linkage, in the present context, is simply the bringing together of information from two records that are believed to relate to the same entity—for example, the same individual, the same family, or the same business. This might involve the linking of records within a single database to identify duplicate case records. Alternatively, record linkage might involve the linking of records across t...
متن کاملUse of medical record linkage to study readmission rates.
Readmission rates after inpatient care were studied by using routinely collected data from the Oxford record linkage study for 1968-85. Discharges from hospital and subsequent admissions were identified for people who were both resident and treated in the area covered by the linkage study. Rates were calculated for readmissions within 28 days after discharge from the first, index event. Readmis...
متن کاملA medical record linkage analysis of abortion underreporting.
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. A comparison of the medical records of 104 American women aged 27-30 in 1990-1991 with their self-reported abortion h...
متن کاملValidating Distance-Based Record Linkage with Probabilistic Record Linkage
This work compares two alternative methods for record linkage: distance based and probabilistic record linkage. It compares the performance of both approaches when data is categorical. To that end, a distance over ordinal and nominal scales is defined. The paper shows that, for categorical data, distance-based and probabilistic-based record linkage lead to similar results in relation to the num...
متن کاملBook review: Basics in medical education
(page number not for citation purposes) 2011, National Health Personnel Licensing Examination Board of the Republic of Korea This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine
سال: 1968
ISSN: 0035-9157
DOI: 10.1177/003591576806100139