期刊名称:Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Public Health
印刷版ISSN:2282-0930
出版年度:2013
卷号:10
期号:3
DOI:10.2427/9036
语种:English
出版社:PREX
摘要:Record linkage - i.e. the use and linkage of electronic, mainly administrative databases - has been utilized in epidemiologic research for over three decades now, starting from the system implemented in a few US health maintenance organizations (HMO, i.e. the Kaiser Permanente network), a few Nordic countries systems, or the UK general practice research database (UK GPRD, now clinical practice research datalink, CPRD) [1, 2]...