How good is probabilistic record linkage to reconstruct reproductive histories? Results from the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s study.

How good is probabilistic record linkage to reconstruct reproductive histories? Results from the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s study.

Nitsch, D ; Hofman, Paul ; DeStavola, BL ; Clark, H ; Leon, DA
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/18848
Issue Date: 2006
Reference: BMC Med Res Methodol 6(1):15 2006
Rights: Copyright: BioMed Central
Rights (URI): https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm

Abstract:

Probabilistic record linkage is widely used in epidemiology, but studies of its validity are rare. Our aim was to validate its use to identify births to a cohort of women, being drawn from a large cohort of people born in Scotland in the early 1950s.

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DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-6-15
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