Linked administrative data offer a rich source of information that can be harnessed to
describe patterns of disease, understand their causes and evaluate interventions. However …

Administrative medical databases are massive repositories of data collected in healthcare
for various purposes. Such databases are maintained in hospitals, health maintenance …

Objective To describe the methods and results of parameter setting that are needed to
execute the probabilistic deduplication of large administrative and epidemiological …

Background Canada has a publicly-funded universal healthcare system with information
systems managed by 13 different provinces and territories. This context creates …

Health registries provide opportunities for conducting large-scale, population-based studies,
but attention must be devoted to their specific limitations. Herein, we describe potential …

Les épidémiologistes cherchent à décrire les phénomènes de santé des populations, à
comprendre l'histoire naturelle des maladies et à juger, en termes de causalité, du rôle de …

Background Cohort studies can provide valuable evidence of cause and effect relationships
but are subject to loss of participants over time, limiting the validity of findings. Computerised …

Background Research using linked routine population-based data collected for non-
research purposes has increased in recent years because they are a rich and detailed …

Imagining an ideal cohort study with prospectively collected study-specific data items is
always a useful exercise when evaluating the appropriateness of secondary health care …

Background As part of the development in information technology, increasing amounts of
health care data are available for epidemiological research. Methods In this review, we …