Probabilistic linkage of national immunisation and state-based health records for a cohort of 1.9 million births to evaluate Australia’s childhood immunisation program

Introduction Several countries have developed national immunisation registers, but only the Nordic countries have linked their registers to other health data in order to comprehensively evaluate the ‘real world’ effectiveness of vaccines. Nordic countries can link datasets deterministically using th...

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Main Authors: Heather F Gidding, Lisa McCallum, Parveen Fathima, Thomas Snelling, Bette Liu, Nicholas de Klerk, Christopher C Blyth, Vicky Sheppeard, Ross M Andrews, Louisa Jorm, Peter B McIntyre, Hannah C Moore
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Swansea University 2017-09-01
Series:International Journal of Population Data Science
Online Access:https://ijpds.org/article/view/406