Studying Hospitalizations and Mortality in the Netherlands: Feasible and Valid Using Two-Step Medical Record Linkage with Nationwide Registers.

Studying Hospitalizations and Mortality in the Netherlands: Feasible and Valid Using Two-Step Medical Record Linkage with Nationwide Registers.

In the Netherlands, the postal code is needed to study hospitalizations of individuals in the nationwide hospitalization register. Studying hospitalizations longitudinally becomes troublesome if individuals change address. We aimed to report on the feasibility and validity of a two-step medical reco...

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Main Authors: Elske Sieswerda, Anna Font-Gonzalez, Marcel G W Dijkgraaf, Ronald B Geskus, Richard C Heinen, Helena J van der Pal, Flora E van Leeuwen, Huib N Caron, Leontien C Kremer, Johannes B Reitsma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4493069?pdf=render

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