Record Linkage Strategies, Outpatient Procedures, and Administrative Data

Medical Care

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 570-582

  Roos, Leslie L ^a,b   Walld, Randy ^a   Wajda, André ^a   Bond, Ruth ^a   Hartford, Kathleen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b ST BONIFACE GENERAL HOSPITAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Administrative data; Coronary angiography; Outpatient procedures; Record linkage; Software

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY CARE; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CANADA; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOCUMENTATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INSURANCE; MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING; AMBULATORY CARE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INSURANCE CLAIM REPORTING; MANITOBA; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0030161982     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-199606000-00007     Document Type: Article

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