Assessment of the discriminating power of identifiers for record linkage;Estimation de la valeur discriminante des traits d'identification utilisés pour le rapprochement des données d'un patient

Revue d'Epidemiologie et de Sante Publique

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 431-440

  Quantin, C ^a   Binquet, C ^a   Bourquard, K ^b   Allaert, F A ^c   Gouyon, B ^a   Ferdynus, C ^a   Pattisina, R ^a   Harmenil, G ^a   Pequignot, S ^a   Gouyon, J B ^d  

^a DIJON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b Groupement Modernisation S d'I H   (France)

^c Centre Europeen de Normalisation   (France)

^d Medical University of Dijon   (France)

Author keywords

Confidentiality; Match weights; Patient identifiers; Probabilistic record linkage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT CODING; PATIENT INFORMATION; PROBABILITY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

EID: 10344225166     PISSN: 03987620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0398-7620(04)99079-7     Document Type: Article

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