The public-use national health interview survey linked mortality files: Methods of reidentification risk avoidance and comparative analysis

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 168, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 336-344

  Lochner, Kimberly ^a   Hummer, Robert A ^b   Bartee, Stephanie ^a   Wheatcroft, Gloria ^a   Cox, Christine ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidentiality; Epidemiologic methods; Health surveys; Longitudinal studies; Mortality

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FLY; HEALTH SURVEY; MORTALITY; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART DISEASE; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSTATE CANCER; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE (STATISTICS); SUICIDE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CONFIDENTIALITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEATH CERTIFICATES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MARYLAND; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS (U.S.); PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 47649120963     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwn123     Document Type: Article

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