ArticleBMC health services research2008
Linkage of health and aged care service events: comparing linkage and event selection methods.
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- Use of linked electronic health records to assess mortality and length of stay associated with pandemic influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 at a UK teaching hospital.Epidemiology and infection · 2015Article
- Optimal strategy for linkage of datasets containing a statistical linkage key and datasets with full personal identifiers.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2014Article
- The promise of record linkage for assessing the uptake of health services in resource constrained settings: a pilot study from South Africa.BMC medical research methodology · 2014Article
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Abstract
backgroundData linkage is a technique that has long been used to connect information across several disparate data sources--most commonly for medical and population health research. Often the purpose is to connect data for individuals over extended time periods or across different service settings, and so person-based linkage using detailed personal information is preferred. Linkage which aims to link connected events, on the other hand, requires information about the time and place of the event as well as the person or persons involved in that event in order to make high quality linkages. This paper describes the detailed process of event linkage and compares directly an event-based linkage method for identifying transition events between two care sectors in Australia with a well-established high quality longitudinal person-based linkage which facilitates identification of event data for individuals.
methodsDirect comparisons are made between transition events identified using an event-based linkage and an existing person-based linkage for people moving from hospital into aged care in Western Australia. Several aspects of event-based linkage are examined: refinement of the strategy to reduce false positives, causes of false positives and false negatives, quality of the linked event dataset, and utility of the linked event dataset for transition analysis.
resultsOver 97% of the event-based links were among those selected using the person-based linkage and over 90% of the latter were identified by the event-based method, with the remainder missed mostly due to differences in reported event date or residential region. Consequently the two linked datasets were sufficiently similar to give very similar results for analyses, but the actual volume of movement from hospital to RAC was underestimated by about 10% by the event-based method.
conclusionThis project has allowed a 'preferred event' event-based linkage strategy to be selected and deployed across Australia to study movements from hospital to residential aged care facilities using databases in which only limited personal information is available, but event dates and details can be readily accessed. The utility of this approach in other transition situations depends on the volume of movement and the accuracy of recording information in each setting.
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