Evaluating health outcomes of criminal justice populations using record linkage: The importance of aliases

Evaluation Review

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 118-128

  Larney, Sarah ^a   Burns, Lucy ^b  

^a Justice Health Centre for Health Research in Criminal Justice   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

alias; criminal justice; prisoners; record linkage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CRIME; CRIMINAL LAW; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; PRISON; PRISONER; PRIVACY; REGISTER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CRIME; CRIMINAL LAW; DATA COLLECTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY; NEW SOUTH WALES; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PRISONERS; PRISONS; PRIVACY; REGISTRIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79955872928     PISSN: 0193841X     EISSN: 15523926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0193841X11401695     Document Type: Article

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