Linking Electronic Health Record and Trauma Registry Data: Assessing the Value of Probabilistic Linkage.

CONCLUSION:  The combination of deterministic and an additional probabilistic method represents a robust approach for linking EHR data to trauma registry data. This approach may be generalizable to studies involving other registries and databases.
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Source: Methods of Information in Medicine - November 19, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: Durojaiye AB, Puett LL, Levin S, Toerper M, McGeorge NM, Webster KLW, Deol GS, Kharrazi H, Lehmann HP, Gurses AP Tags: Methods Inf Med Source Type: research