Improving the accuracy of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal disease notification rates using data linkage

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Mak, Donna B ^a   Watkins, Rochelle E ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; POPULATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYPHILIS; BLOODBORNE BACTERIUM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; EVALUATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTH SURVEY; INFECTION CONTROL; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREVALENCE; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; VIRUS INFECTION;

BLOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTH SERVICES, INDIGENOUS; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; VIRUS DISEASES; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 45249100910     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-8-118     Document Type: Article

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