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Article type: Research Article
Authors: de Bruin, Agnes; * | Kardaun, Jan | Gast, Fred | de Bruin, Edie | van Sijl, Marije | Verweij, Gerard
Affiliations: Statistics Netherlands, P.O. Box 4000, 2270 JM Voorburg, The Netherlands
Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Agnes de Bruin. Tel.: +31 70 337 5299; Fax: +31 70 337 5987; E-mail: [email protected]
Abstract: This paper describes the first-time linking by Statistics Netherlands of the hospital discharge register (HDR), held by Prismant, with the population register (PR). This linkage is the first step in building an integrated population-based health statistics dataset at individual level, using existing register data as much as possible. The linkage of the HDR with the PR has proved to be successful: 87.6% of the HDR records could be uniquely linked to a person record in the PR, 8.7% were multiply linked, and 3.6% of the records could not be linked. The multiple linkages are a natural result of the limited resolution power of the linkage key (date of birth, sex, postal code). The 3.6% non-linkages are also plausible, given a rate of approximately 2% administrative errors in both registers. The quality of the linkage was further studied by estimating the level of mismatches (false positive linkages): this rate was estimated to be in the order of magnitude of approximately 1%, and in any case less than 3%. It was concluded that the linkage of the Dutch HDR with the PR is of good quality and that it forms an adequate basis for statistical analyses.
Keywords: record linkage, registers, hospital admissions, population data, methods, quality
DOI: 10.3233/SJU-2004-21104
Journal: Statistical Journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 23-32, 2004
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