An Empiric Modification to the Probabilistic Record Linkage Algorithm Using Frequency-Based Weight Scaling

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 738-745

  Zhu, Vivienne J ^a,b   Overhage, Marc J ^a,b   Egg, James ^a   Downs, Stephen M ^a,b   Grannis, Shaun J ^a,b  

^a REGENSTRIEF INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL RECORD; NEWBORN SCREENING; PROBABILITY; REGISTRATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; HUMANS; INDIANA; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; NEONATAL SCREENING; REGISTRIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 69549097741     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M3186     Document Type: Article

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