One comparison, involving start vertex date and segment label, provides a direct linkage to existing change detection validation approaches that rely on contingency (error) matrices and kappa statistics.
Ascertainment of pregnancy outcomes by linkage to existing population health databases can overcome some of these constraints, the costs of linkage in this study was AUD8500.
The potential to extend research through linkage to existing external data concerning the health of individuals and their environment is similarly acknowledged.
Linkage to existing environmental exposure databases fulfills the mission of environmental health tracking programs, allowing relatively inexpensive study of retrospective exposure, which is not affected by recall bias.
TSR thus seeks to overcome the main disadvantages of spontaneous reporting, that is underreporting and the inability to calculate rates, while maintaining simplicity of use, low cost and linkage to existing systems.
Our respondents reported that the patient portal's linkage to existing IT infrastructure, particularly the comprehensive EHR, powers its functionality and connectivity since patients are provided access to information from all their providers on one patient portal.
Utilisation of total population health survey data (eg, the HUNT and Tromsø studies) 54 55 with a linkage to existing hospital patient data and administrative registry data is possible since every citizen in Norway has a unique identification code.
We evaluated all patients with end stage renal disease undergoing dialysis financed through the SUS between January 1, 2000, and December 31 , 2012 applying deterministic and probabilistic record linkage techniques to existing data files received from the Ministry of Health, as has been previously described [ 4].
Such considerations may also apply to commodity and currency sectors where no current exchange-traded fund exists, but the linkage to an existing index with a long history overrides concerns about assets under management.
A specially designed extension to the CCAD was developed to allow the linkage of PROMs returns to existing clinical data while retaining patient anonymity.
