Improving the Continuum of Care by Bridging the Gap between Prehospital and Hospital Discharge Data through Stepwise Deterministic Linkage.
CONCLUSION: It is feasible to link prehospital and hospital data using stepwise deterministic linkage; this method returns a high linkage rate with a low false positive error rate. Data linkage is vital to identifying and bridging gaps in the continuum of care and is a useful tool in statewide and agency-specific research and quality improvement.
PMID: 30973796 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Prehospital Emergency Care - Category: Endocrinology Tags: Prehosp Emerg Care Source Type: research