Development of a database of health insurance claims: Standardization of disease classifications and anonymous record linkage

Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 413-419

  Kimura, Shinya ^a   Sato, Toshihiko ^b   Ikeda, Shunya ^c   Noda, Mitsuhiko ^d   Nakayama, Takeo ^e  

^a Japan Medical Data Center   (Japan)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Administrative data; Database; Health insurance claims; Health services research; Record linkage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CONFIDENTIALITY; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSURANCE; STANDARD; DISEASES; STANDARDS;

CONFIDENTIALITY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISEASE; HUMANS; INSURANCE CLAIM REPORTING; INSURANCE, HEALTH; RECORDS AS TOPIC;

EID: 78049233404     PISSN: 09175040     EISSN: 13499092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2188/jea.JE20090066     Document Type: Article

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