Published in Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application
Entity resolution is the process of merging and removing duplicate records from multiple data sources, often in the absence of unique identifiers. Bayesian models for entity resolution allow one to include a priori information, quantify uncertainty in important applications, and directly estimate a partition of the records. Markov chain Monte Carlo...
Published in Frontiers in Medicine
Introduction The potential for secondary use of health data to improve healthcare is currently not fully exploited. Health data is largely kept in isolated data silos and key infrastructure to aggregate these silos into standardized bodies of knowledge is underdeveloped. We describe the development, implementation, and evaluation of a federated inf...
Published in Child maltreatment
This longitudinal population-based study examines the association between maltreatment victimization experiences and the likelihood of intergenerational (dis)continuity of maltreatment. Our data include all individuals born in 1983/1984 in Queensland (QLD), Australia who are registered as parents via birth records and who experienced system contact...
Published in European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association
Educational attainment is an understudied outcome in eating disorders (ED). We compared the educational attainment of individuals with and without ED. This study is a nationwide, register-based, observational epidemiological study using record linkage. The studied cohorts were (1) all persons treated psychiatrically for ED from 1970 to 2014, and (2...
Published in Frontiers in Digital Health
Introduction Linking free-text addresses to unique identifiers in a structural address database [the Ordnance Survey unique property reference number (UPRN) in the United Kingdom (UK)] is a necessary step for downstream geospatial analysis in many digital health systems, e.g., for identification of care home residents, understanding housing transit...
Published in Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety
To help prevent overdose deaths involving prescription drugs, accurate linkage of prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) records for individual patients is essential. To compare the accuracy of the linkage program used by California's PDMP against various record linkage programs with respect to accuracy in deduplicating patient identities in t...
Published in Psychological medicine
No single environmental factor is a necessary or sufficient cause of mental disorder; multifactorial and transdiagnostic approaches are needed to understand the impact of the environment on the development of mental disorders across the life course. Using linked multi-agency administrative data for 71 932 children from the New South Wales Child Dev...
Published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases
Through population-based linked data analysis, we show a real-world protective benefit of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV) on respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) hospitalizations in infants. These findings are relevant for settings with a high RSV burden but no current universal PCV program.
Published in Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD
A crucial step for planning effective public health policies for migrants with dementia is the collection of data on the local dimensions of the phenomenon and patients' characteristics. This study aimed to identify and characterize migrants with dementia in the Lazio region using health administrative databases. Residents with dementia aged 50 yea...
Published in Scandinavian journal of public health
It is becoming increasingly possible to obtain additional information about health survey participants, though not usually non-participants, via record linkage. We aimed to assess the validity of an assumption underpinning a method developed to mitigate non-participation bias. We use a survey in Finland where it is possible to link both participant...
