Effects of record linkage errors on registry-based follow-up studies

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 23, 1997, Pages 2633-2643

  Brenner, Hermann ^a   Schmidtmann, Irene ^b   Stegmaier, Christa ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c SAARLAND CANCER REGISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DEATH CERTIFICATE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; REGISTER; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SURVIVAL;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CONFIDENTIALITY; DEATH CERTIFICATES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORMS AND RECORDS CONTROL; GERMANY; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; NEOPLASMS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REGISTRIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0030660127     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19971215)16:23<2633::AID-SIM702>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Review

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