Medical Record Linkage - Standards
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Validity of coronary heart diseases and heart failure based on hospital discharge and mortality data in the Netherlands using the cardiovascular registry Maastricht cohort study.

30 Mar 2009 Incidence rates of cardiovascular diseases are often estimated by linkage to hospital discharge and mortality registries. The validity depends on the quality of the registries and the linkage. Therefore, we validated incidence rates of coronary ... Read more...

The urgency of establishing a rapid monitoring system for mortality due to traffic accidents (as well as for all mortality due to violence and accidents).

27 Feb 2009 The data regarding the number of deaths from road accidents per year in Italy is presently available only after extensive time, in the range of years. This situation originates from problems related to data collection as well as to the subsequent ... Read more...

Reducing medication errors and improving systems reliability using an electronic medication reconciliation system.

30 Jan 2009 BACKGROUND: Medication reconciliation (MedRecon) has been a Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goal since 2006. However, there is scant literature on the evaluation of electronic MedRecon systems in reducing medication errors and on improving ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Medical Record Linkage - Standards'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The US health care system: Part 1: our current system. 16 Aug 2009
• Using case studies to define nursing informatics interoperability. 30 Jul 2009
• Consolidated, without waste. Pilot project gives Montana HIO a single-source solution to patient data. 27 Jun 2009
• The US health information knowledgebase. A metadata registry that makes sense of the myriad standards. 29 Apr 2009
• Approving RHIOs. Fledgling programs underscore accountability, trust in data exchange. 29 Apr 2009
• Validity of coronary heart diseases and heart failure based on hospital discharge and mortality data in the Netherlands using the cardiovascular registry Maastricht cohort study. 30 Mar 2009
• The urgency of establishing a rapid monitoring system for mortality due to traffic accidents (as well as for all mortality due to violence and accidents). 27 Feb 2009
• Facilitating data exchange. 30 Jan 2009
• Reducing medication errors and improving systems reliability using an electronic medication reconciliation system. 30 Jan 2009
• Public attitudes to the storage of blood left over from routine general practice tests and its use in research. 30 Dec 2008
• Universal adapters. Terminology standards enable meaningful data exchange. 30 Dec 2008
• Topic maps for exploring nosological, lexical, semantic and HL7 structures for clinical data. 29 Nov 2008
• Electronic health records in ambulatory care. 21 Oct 2008
• Electronic health records in ambulatory care. 21 Oct 2008
• Maximizing value. RHIOs help you get more out of electronic records. 6 Sep 2008
• What's taking so long? 30 Aug 2008
• Crossing state lines to build better software. 29 Jun 2008
• Accuracy of public health data linkages. 22 Jun 2008
• Canada's Interoperable EHR. Infoway chooses the more challenging path, the greater benefits. 29 Apr 2008
• Tectonic shifts in the health information economy. 15 Apr 2008

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Technical information about 'Medical Record Linkage'

Definition: The creation and maintenance of medical and vital records in multiple institutions in a manner that will facilitate the combined use of the records of identified individuals.

Descriptor UI: D008498

Alternative terms: Medical Record Linkage; Record Linkage, Medical; Linkage, Medical Record; Linkages, Medical Record; Medical Record Linkages; Record Linkages, Medical;

Allowable Qualifiers: instrumentation; methods; standards;

Tree Number: E05.318.308.940.968.500; L01.280.900.968.500; N04.452.859.564.550; N05.715.360.300.715.500.500; N06.850.520.308.940.968.500;

History Note: 91(75); was see under MEDICAL RECORDS 1975-90

Technical Notes: records in multiple institutions for combined use of a patient's records; IM; DF: MED RECORD LINKAGE