Record linkage is increasingly used to expand the information available for public health
research. An understanding of record linkage methods and the relevant strengths and …

Over the past six years, the World Health Organization has undertaken a new assessment of
the global burden of disease for 2000-2. The World Health Organization has also invested in …

Linkage of population-based administrative data is a valuable tool for combining detailed
individual-level information from different sources for research. While not a substitute for …

This chapter provides an overview of the data matching process, and describes the five
major steps involved in this process: data pre-processing (cleaning and standardisation) …

Record linkage is the process of matching records from several databases that refer to the
same entities. When applied on a single database, this process is known as deduplication …

The rapid growth of the Web in the past two decades has made it the largest publicly
accessible data source in the world. Web mining aims to discover useful information or …

The process of identifying which records in two or more databases correspond to the same
entity is an important aspect of data quality activities such as data pre-processing and data …

Background Digital technology uses in cardiology have become a popular research focus in
recent years. However, there has been no published bibliometric report that analyzed the …

Abstract The growth of Big Data, especially personal data dispersed in multiple data
sources, presents enormous opportunities and insights for businesses to explore and …

Objectives: The report describes the strategic design, steps to full implementation and
outcomes achieved by the Western Australian Data Linkage System (WADLS), instigated in …