Creating a Powerful Platform to Explore Health in a Correctional Population: A Record Linkage Study.

We used record linkage to create a data repository of health information of persons who were federally incarcerated in Ontario and Canada. We obtained records from 56,867 adults who were federally incarcerated between January 1, 1998 and December 31, 2011 from the Correctional Service of Canada; 15,...

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Main Authors: Kathryn E McIsaac, Shanna Farrell MacDonald, Nelson Chong, Andrea Moser, Rahim Moineddin, Angela Colantonio, Avery Nathens, Flora I Matheson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4988706?pdf=render