Use of Commercial Record Linkage Software and Vital Statistics to Identify Patient Deaths

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 233-237

  Newman, Thomas B ^a,b   Brown, Andrew N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DEATH CERTIFICATE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MICROCOMPUTER; MORTALITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIAL SECURITY; UNITED STATES;

ALGORITHMS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CALIFORNIA; DEATH CERTIFICATES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MICROCOMPUTERS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIAL SECURITY; SOFTWARE VALIDATION;

EID: 0031136810     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1997.0040233     Document Type: Article

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