Quality of record linkage in a highly automated cancer registry that relies on encrypted identity data

Quality of record linkage in a highly automated cancer registry that relies on encrypted identity data

Objectives: In the absence of unique ID numbers, cancer and other registries in Germany and elsewhere rely on identity data to link records pertaining to the same patient. These data are often encrypted to ensure privacy. Some record linkage errors unavoidably occur. These errors were quantified for...

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Main Authors: Schmidtmann, Irene, Sariyar, Murat, Borg, Andreas, Gerold-Ay, Aslihan, Heidinger, Oliver, Hense, Hans-Werner, Krieg, Volker, Hammer, Gaël Paul
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House 2016-06-01
Series:GMS Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie
Subjects:
record linkage
cancer registry
evaluation
encrypted data
data quality
Online Access:http://www.egms.de/static/en/journals/mibe/2016-12/mibe000164.shtml

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