ArticleBMC medical informatics and decision making2016
Describing the linkages of the immigration, refugees and citizenship Canada permanent resident data and vital statistics death registry to Ontario's administrative health database.
Article in BMC medical informatics and decision making, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 131 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
131 citing papers in PubMed.
- Sex-specific drivers of non-affective psychotic disorders within migrant groups: A 25-year retrospective cohort study of 2 million migrants.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Article
- Examining Multimorbidity in Older Adults Living in Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities, in Ontario, Canada, Using Latent Class Analysis.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2026Article
- Cold-Related Illness Among Older Adults Experiencing Homelessness.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Palliative Care Delivery in the Last Year of Life among Ethnically South Asian Canadians in Ontario, Canada.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2026Article
- Social Determinants of Health and 30-Day Mortality After Inpatient Elective Surgery.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Article
- Machine learning identifies clusters of multimorbidity among decedents with inflammatory bowel disease.Communications medicine · 2025Article
- Article
- Weight status of children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder: A cross-sectional analysis of primary care electronic medical records and linked health administrative datasets in Ontario, Canada.Pediatric obesity · 2025Article
- Post-discharge Home Care Services Use, Long-Term Care Placement, and Survival in Older Adults with Major Trauma: a Population-Based Cohort Study from Ontario, Canada.Canadian geriatrics journal : CGJ · 2025Article
- Effect of single-entry referral models and team-based care on wait times for hip and knee joint replacement in Ontario: a simulation study.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2025Article
- Cohort Profile: The Ontario Mental Health and Intersectionality Data Surveillance (Ontario-MINDS) Cohort.International journal of epidemiology · 2025Article
- Morbidity among resettled refugees at arrival in Ontario, Canada (1994-2017): a controlled interrupted time series study examining the effect of the Immigration Refugee Protection Act, 2002.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2025Article
- Exploring unregulated substance use health data in Ontario, Canada: Identifying gaps, addressing challenges, and uncovering opportunities.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Article
- Prevalence and Temporal Trends of Epilepsy in Children: A Retrospective Birth Cohort Study.Neuroepidemiology · 2025Article
- Factors associated with transition to a nursing home in older adults living in naturally occurring retirement communities.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2025Article
- Validity of the Leading Causes of Death Classification for Premature Mortality in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Population-Based Comparison with ICD-10 Coding in Ontario, Canada.Clinical epidemiology · 2025Article
- A portrait of older adults in naturally occurring retirement communities in Ontario, Canada: A population-based study.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2025Article
- Processes of obstetrical care and outcomes among Ontario physicians versus non-physicians: a population-based study.BMJ open · 2024Article
71 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundOntario, the most populous province in Canada, has a universal healthcare system that routinely collects health administrative data on its 13 million legal residents that is used for health research. Record linkage has become a vital tool for this research by enriching this data with the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada Permanent Resident (IRCC-PR) database and the Office of the Registrar General's Vital Statistics-Death (ORG-VSD) registry. Our objectives were to estimate linkage rates and compare characteristics of individuals in the linked versus unlinked files.
methodsWe used both deterministic and probabilistic linkage methods to link the IRCC-PR database (1985-2012) and ORG-VSD registry (1990-2012) to the Ontario's Registered Persons Database. Linkage rates were estimated and standardized differences were used to assess differences in socio-demographic and other characteristics between the linked and unlinked records.
resultsThe overall linkage rates for the IRCC-PR database and ORG-VSD registry were 86.4 and 96.2 %, respectively. The majority (68.2 %) of the record linkages in IRCC-PR were achieved after three deterministic passes, 18.2 % were linked probabilistically, and 13.6 % were unlinked. Similarly the majority (79.8 %) of the record linkages in the ORG-VSD were linked using deterministic record linkage, 16.3 % were linked after probabilistic and manual review, and 3.9 % were unlinked. Unlinked and linked files were similar for most characteristics, such as age and marital status for IRCC-PR and sex and most causes of death for ORG-VSD. However, lower linkage rates were observed among people born in East Asia (78 %) in the IRCC-PR database and certain causes of death in the ORG-VSD registry, namely perinatal conditions (61.3 %) and congenital anomalies (81.3 %).
conclusionsThe linkages of immigration and vital statistics data to existing population-based healthcare data in Ontario, Canada will enable many novel cross-sectional and longitudinal studies to be conducted. Analytic techniques to account for sub-optimal linkage rates may be required in studies of certain ethnic groups or certain causes of death among children and infants.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.