Trauma registry record linkage: Methodological approach to benefit from complementary data using the example of the German Pelvic Injury Register and the TraumaRegister DGU®

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Burkhardt, Markus ^a   Nienaber, Ulrike ^b   Holstein, Joerg H ^a   Culemann, Ulf ^a   Bouillon, Bertil ^c   Aghayev, Emin ^d   Paffrath, Thomas ^c   Maegele, Marc ^c   Pohlemann, Tim ^a   Lefering, Rolf ^c  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b AUC Academy for Trauma Surgery   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Data concordance; Multiple trauma patients; Pelvic fracture; Record linkage; Trauma registries

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CODING; FRACTURE; GERMANY; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PELVIC GIRDLE; PELVIS; REGISTER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CLINICAL CODING; FRACTURES, BONE; GERMANY; HOSPITAL RECORDS; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; PELVIC BONES; PELVIS; REGISTRIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84874491124     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-13-30     Document Type: Article

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