Accuracy of probabilistic record linkage applied to health databases: Systematic review

Revista de Saude Publica

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 875-882

  da Silveira, Daniele Pinto ^a   Artmann, Elizabeth ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Information management; Information systems; Interinstitutional relations; Models; Review; Statistical; Statistical databases

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FACTUAL DATABASE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL RESEARCH; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DATABASES, FACTUAL; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 76449083300     PISSN: 00348910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0034-89102009005000060     Document Type: Article

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