Approach to record linkage of primary care data from Clinical Practice Research Datalink to other health-related patient data: overview and implications

S Padmanabhan, L Carty, E Cameron… - European journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Record linkage is increasingly used to expand the information available for public health
research. An understanding of record linkage methods and the relevant strengths and …

Systematic review of record linkage studies of mortality in ex‐prisoners: why (good) methods matter

SA Kinner, S Forsyth, G Williams - Addiction, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Aims World‐wide, more than 30 million people move through prisons annually. Record
linkage studies have identified an increased risk of death in ex‐prisoners. In order to inform …

Impact of a population-based HPV vaccination program on cervical abnormalities: a data linkage study

DM Gertig, JML Brotherton, AC Budd, K Drennan… - BMC medicine, 2013 - Springer
Background Australia was one of the first countries to introduce a publicly funded national
human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program that commenced in April 2007, using the …

GUILD: guidance for information about linking data sets

R Gilbert, R Lafferty, G Hagger-Johnson… - Journal of Public …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Record linkage of administrative and survey data is increasingly used to generate evidence
to inform policy and services. Although a powerful and efficient way of generating new …

[LIVRE][B] Methodological developments in data linkage

K Harron, H Goldstein, C Dibben - 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The increasing availability of large administrative databases for research has led to a
dramatic rise in the use of data linkage. The speed and accuracy of linkage have much …

Evaluating bias due to data linkage error in electronic healthcare records

K Harron, A Wade, R Gilbert, B Muller-Pebody… - BMC medical research …, 2014 - Springer
Background Linkage of electronic healthcare records is becoming increasingly important for
research purposes. However, linkage error due to mis-recorded or missing identifiers can …

Improving the efficiency of clinical trials in multiple sclerosis

RA Marrie, MP Sormani… - Multiple Sclerosis …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Phase 3 clinical trials for disease-modifying therapies in relapsing-remitting
multiple sclerosis (RRMS) have utilized a limited number of conventional designs with a …

Investigating linkage rates among probabilistically linked birth and hospitalization records

JP Bentley, JB Ford, LK Taylor, KA Irvine… - BMC medical research …, 2012 - Springer
Background With the increasing use of probabilistically linked administrative data in health
research, it is important to understand whether systematic differences occur between the …

Life course offending pathways across gender and race/ethnicity

LM Broidy, AL Stewart, CM Thompson… - … of Developmental and …, 2015 - Springer
Purpose This paper aims to refine our understanding of life course offending patterns across
gender and race/ethnicity and to advance work in this area by examining how gender and …

[HTML][HTML] Police and hospital data linkage for traffic injury surveillance: A systematic review

A Soltani, JE Harrison, C Ryder, J Flavel… - Accident Analysis & …, 2024 - Elsevier
This systematic review examines studies of traffic injury that involved linkage of police crash
data and hospital data and were published from 1994 to 2023 worldwide in English …