The effect of data cleaning on record linkage quality

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Randall, Sean M ^a   Ferrante, Anna M ^a   Boyd, James H ^a   Semmens, James B ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Data cleaning; Data quality; Medical record linkage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARD;

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; OBSERVER VARIATION; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84878435659     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-13-64     Document Type: Article

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