CODES analysts mapped motor vehicle crash record and linked hospital data to a standardized set of data elements and transferred de-identified datasets to the CODES Technical Resource Center for combination and analysis.
Data on hospital admissions for MS between 1997 and 2009 were analysed using a file of linked hospital admission statistics, built from the Scottish Morbidity Records (SMR01) system.
(a) Based on linked hospital and RAC records.
Length of gestation was collected from linked hospital maternity records.
Matched-cohort study using anonymously linked hospital admission data.
We used linked hospital discharge and death records covering the Scottish Population (5.1 million).
All children with a prior hospitalisation record have at least 1 year's linked hospital data available.
This study was a retrospective cohort design using linked hospital and mortality data.
This is why we focused analyses on linked hospital data up to 1 year before death.
Retrospective cohort study using linked hospital and mortality data from July 2000 to December 2008.
This study was limited to linked hospital and death registration data.
