Using linkage between hospital and ABS mortality data to enhance reporting of deaths among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 543-548

  Neville, Sarah E ^a   Taylor, Lee K ^a   Moore, Helen ^a   Madden, Richard ^b   Ring, Ian ^c   Pulver, Lisa Jackson ^d   Tickle, Leonie ^e  

^a CENTRE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^e MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aboriginal; Data linkage; Indigenous; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; REGISTER; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MORTALITY; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; REGISTRIES;

EID: 84856007544     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2011.00738.x     Document Type: Article

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