Consenting to health record linkage: Evidence from a multi-purpose longitudinal survey of a general population

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Knies, Gundi ^a   Burton, Jonathan ^a   Sala, Emanuela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MIDDLE AGED; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857667710     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-12-52     Document Type: Article

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