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

dc.contributor.author	Nitsch, D	en
dc.contributor.author	Hofman, Paul	en
dc.contributor.author	DeStavola, BL	en
dc.contributor.author	Clark, H	en
dc.contributor.author	Leon, DA	en
dc.coverage.spatial	England	en
dc.date.accessioned	2012-05-31T21:41:34Z	en
dc.date.issued	2006	en
dc.identifier.citation	BMC Med Res Methodol 6(1):15 2006	en
dc.identifier.issn	1471-2288	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2292/18848	en
dc.description.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.	en
dc.language	eng	en
dc.publisher	BioMed Central	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	BMC Medical Research Methodology	en
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dc.subject	Adolescent	en
dc.subject	Adult	en
dc.subject	Birth Certificates	en
dc.subject	Child	en
dc.subject	Cohort Studies	en
dc.subject	England	en
dc.subject	Female	en
dc.subject	Fertility	en
dc.subject	Humans	en
dc.subject	Medical Record Linkage	en
dc.subject	Morbidity	en
dc.subject	Names	en
dc.subject	Pregnancy	en
dc.subject	Pregnancy Outcome	en
dc.subject	Probability	en
dc.subject	Public Health Informatics	en
dc.subject	Questionnaires	en
dc.subject	Registries	en
dc.subject	Scotland	en
dc.subject	Wales	en
dc.title	How good is probabilistic record linkage to reconstruct reproductive histories? Results from the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s study.	en
dc.type	Journal Article	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1186/1471-2288-6-15	en
pubs.issue	1	en
pubs.begin-page	15	en
pubs.volume	6	en
dc.rights.holder	Copyright: BioMed Central	en
dc.identifier.pmid	16553951	en
dc.rights.accessrights	http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/RestrictedAccess	en
pubs.subtype	Article	en
pubs.elements-id	158964	en
pubs.org-id	Liggins Institute	en
pubs.org-id	Medical and Health Sciences	en
pubs.org-id	Population Health	en
pubs.org-id	Social & Community Health	en
dc.identifier.pii	1471-2288-6-15	en
pubs.record-created-at-source-date	2012-06-01	en
pubs.dimensions-id	16553951	en