Cohort Profile: The Scottish Health Surveys Cohort: Linkage of study participants to routinely collected records for mortality, hospital discharge, cancer and offspring birth characteristics in three nationwide studies

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 345-350

  Gray, Linsay ^a   David Batty, G ^a   Craig, Peter ^b,c   Stewart, Catherine ^a   Whyte, Bruce ^d   Finlayson, Alan ^e   Leyland, Alastair H ^a  

^a MRC SOCIAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC Population Health Sciences Research Network   (United Kingdom)

^d Glasgow Centre for Population Health   (United Kingdom)

^e Information Services Healthcare Information Group   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH RATE; CANCER; COHORT ANALYSIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL SECTOR; MORTALITY;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BIRTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MORTALITY; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; SOLID TUMOR; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULT CHILDREN; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; SCOTLAND; YOUNG ADULT;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77952702010     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyp155     Document Type: Article

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