In a biobank with a double coding system, the linkage database that contains the numerical codes linking samples and data to personal identifiers is held by a trusted intermediary or "keyholder".
Confidentiality: In accordance with the Spanish laws on right to privacy and patients' protection, and the 2009 and 2012 Resolutions of the Regional Health Secretary regarding information requests from the VHA information system, the database linkages will be carried out in the corresponding Department of the VHA by the people authorised to do these tasks.
Our achievement has been applied in many fire fighting systems and the linkage control system of water supply pump is proved to be safe and reliable.
Population based studies of AMI incidence are uncommon but Scotland is in the advantageous position of having a data system permitting the linkage of information on hospital admissions with mortality data for the whole population (5.1 million in 2001[ 2]).
However, there are distinct differences in the types of regulatory systems and the linkage(s) between regulatory modules.
The reconnection of social and ecological systems by understanding the linkages between people's attitudes and conservation behavior will help improve conservation outcomes.
By identifying the service points in a healthcare system, the associated topological linkages between these points and the stochastic processes that characterize the arrival process of patients and service processes of healthcare staff, one can apply a QM to quantitatively describe patient flow through the systems as well as waiting times in the system.
The latter includes consideration of intra-system and inter-system linkages and the different levels (international, national, subnational, provider, and community), along with consideration of harmonization for comparisons across different levels [ 2, 44, 48- 50].
The query results from the system provide physician linkages to the articles and help them determine their clinical implications.
However, using string similarity functions within a probabilistic record linkage system will improve the linkage quality considerably.
