A new scope and a vision for record linkage studies

Authors

  • Giovanni Corrao University of Milano-Bicocca
  • Carlo La Vecchia University of Milan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2427/9036

Abstract

Record linkage - i.e. the use and linkage of electronic, mainly administrative databases - has been utilized in epidemiologic research for over three decades now, starting from the system implemented in a few US health maintenance organizations (HMO, i.e. the Kaiser Permanente network), a few Nordic countries systems, or the UK general practice research database (UK GPRD, now clinical practice research datalink,
CPRD) [1, 2]...

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Published

2022-07-06

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 3 (2013): Observing Real World Clinical Practice

Section

Editorial

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