GUILD: GUidance for Information about Linking Data sets

Journal of Public Health (United Kingdom)

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 191-198

  Gilbert, Ruth ^a   Lafferty, Rosemary ^a   Hagger Johnson, Gareth ^a   Harron, Katie ^b   Zhang, Li Chun ^c   Smith, Peter ^c   Dibben, Chris ^d   Goldstein, Harvey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

epidemiology; health services; management and policy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCIENTIST; VALIDITY; ANONYMIZATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEDICAL RECORD; UNITED KINGDOM;

DATA ACCURACY; DATA ANONYMIZATION; DATASETS AS TOPIC; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 85044355447     PISSN: 17413842     EISSN: 17413850     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fdx037     Document Type: Article

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