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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"data linkage"”.
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Death among a cohort of prisoners in New South Wales Australia — a data linkage study
… January 1988 and December 2002, by record linkage to the Australian National Death Index. The cohort included 76383 men and 8820 women. Over a mean follow-up of 7.7 years, 5137 deaths (4724 men, 423 women) were identified. Three hundred and three deaths (295 men, eight women) occurred in …
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Factors affecting radiotherapy utilization in NSW and ACT 2004-06: a data linkage and geographical information system study
… effect of geographic variation on RTU METHODS Data were collected from all radiotherapy departments (RTD) in NSW and ACT for years 2004-2006. Follow up for death status used for survival time was for a minimum of 2 years. RT data and Central Cancer Registries records were linked by the Centre …
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The Epidemiology and Management of Ischaemic Heart Disease in New Zealand: A Series of National Routine Health Data-Linkage Studies
This thesis comprises a series of eight data-linkage studies that examined the epidemiology and management of ischaemic heart disease (IHD) in New Zealand over the last 12 years. Using individual-level linkage of routinely collected national data on almost the entire population, the first three …
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The ethical, legal, and social acceptability of health data linkage in the Australian context: an investigation of current practices, perceptions, and public attitudes.
Vast collections of electronic data are held by a variety of health organisations, including government and non-government agencies, hospitals and universities. Data linkage involves combining such data sets for secondary purposes such as population health research. Data linkage currently occurs in …
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Investigating prevalence and healthcare use of children with complex healthcare needs using data linkage. A study using multi-ethnic data from an ongoing prospective cohort: the Born in Bradford project
… healthcare needs. Methods: Routine health data from primary care was explored to identify children with CA and linked to secondary care data, outpatient records, and questionnaire data from a multi-ethnic prospective birth cohort over a five-year period. Rates of CA were calculated and …
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VacSeen : semantically enriched automatic identification and data capture for improved vaccine logistics
… access in resource-constrained settings through data linkage and temperature sensing. I subsequently discuss the value of such linkage and approaches to implementation using concepts from technology, policy, and systems analysis.
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The Applied Epidemiology of Influenza and other Infectious Diseases in Victoria
… response capability within the region; a data analysis of the number of hospitalisations and emergency department attendances averted by influenza vaccination in Victoria from 2017-2019; and a data linkage evaluation of the surveillance of intensive care unit admissions for patients …
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Applied Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases in Australia
… the core competencies of field epidemiology: - Data analysis: Cholera risk in Australian returned travellers: An analysis of notifications to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) from 1991- 2018 - Outbreak investigation: Measles outbreak in seasonal horticultural workers …
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Applied Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases in Australia
… the core competencies of field epidemiology: - Data analysis: Cholera risk in Australian returned travellers: An analysis of notifications to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) from 1991- 2018 - Outbreak investigation: Measles outbreak in seasonal horticultural workers …
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Semi-automatic matching of semi-structured data updates
Data matching, also referred to as data linkage or field matching, is a technique used to combine multiple data sources into one data set. Data matching is used for data integration in a number of sectors and industries; from politics and health care to scientific applications. The motivation for …
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Does a verbal autopsy narrative provide accurate information about treatment default for people who have died from HIV/AIDS?
… in identifying ART treatment default by linking data from the national treatment register with NCODV 2017/18 HIV/AIDS related death data. Methods: Secondary analysis of VA data from the NCODV 2017/18 project after linking with TIER.Net data on ART treatment maintained by the Department of Health. …
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Statistical learning with differential privacy
… era characterized by the unprecedented growth of data, the preservation of individual privacy has become a prominent challenge in data-driven decision-making across diverse domains. The concept of differential privacy, a robust mathematical framework, has emerged as the gold standard for providing …
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The trends and rates of gabapentin and pregabalin
… among the general population. (Part 2) The data-linkage analysis, aims to summarise the gabapentin and pregabalin prescribing patterns in Tayside over 11 years (2006 to 2016) and Fife over seven years (2010 to 2016). As well as the association of prescribing patterns with sociodemographic …
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The geographical data science of population flows
… Previous research based on interaction data for census administrative boundaries indicates urban – rural patterns in the propensity to travel which are exasperated in peripheral areas. These findings are considered to be an effect of the spatial structure of zonings and thus an …
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An Epidemiological Study of Exhaustion in the Context of Chronic stress. Concept, Cortisol, Causes and Consequences
… on average between 1989 and 2005, and recent data reveals that exhaustion still remains at this higher level. Scientifically, exhaustion is not clearly defined. Chronic stress is acknowledged to give rise to exhaustion, but specific mechanisms involved have generally been overlooked in stress …
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The effects of right ventricular pacing in the heart failure population
… function. <br/>An initial observational database linkage study was performed to investigate <br/>the prevalence of heart failure in patients referred for pacemaker insertion. <br/>This identified a significant portion of patients (19%) had heart failure and <br/>were potentially at risk. …
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Closing Research Gaps for Cerebral Palsy Prevention and Magnesium Sulphate Neuroprotection
… interventions for preventing CP. 3. To link data from a maternal perinatal randomised controlled trial (RCT) with a nationwide CP register to identify children with CP. 4. To assess whether antenatal magnesium sulphate is associated with perinatal death or other adverse neonatal outcomes. …
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Pre-operative Risk Factors for Arteriovenous Fistula Failure in the Haemodialysis Population
… using health informatics, electronic records and data linkage to create an accurate picture of a patients AVF timeline. This retrospective single centre study assessed known risk-factors such as age and diabetes, and various serological markers such as albumin, c-reactive protein, ferritin and …
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Communicable Diseases Epidemiology
… research projects: an epidemiological study, data analysis study, outbreak response, and an evaluation of a public health surveillance system. I was also heavily involved in routine public health work including on-call, outbreak investigations and follow-up of laboratory notifications. The …
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Genomics & Gastroenteritis - A Journey in Applied Epidemiology
… for peer-review and publication. I completed a data analysis project which examined the genomic diversity of Salmonella Typhimurium in Victoria between 2018-2020, to inform the implementation of whole genome sequencing (WGS) as a tool for routine surveillance. As an outcome of this work, I was …
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