Investigating linkage rates among probabilistically linked birth and hospitalisation records
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Jason P Bentley, Jane B Ford, Lee K Taylor, Katie A Irvine, and Christine L Roberts * 1 Clinical and Population Perinatal Health Research, Kolling Institute of Medical Research, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia 2 Centre for Epidemiology and Research, NSW Ministry of Health, Sydney, Australia 3 Centre for Health Record Linkage, Cancer Institute, Sydney, Australia * Corresponding Author
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تاریخ انتشار 2014