Medical Record Linkage
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

[Electronic health records and biomedical research]

16 Sep 2009 The rapid progress in Web technology has led to the multiplication of health and research records for any given patient. Initiatives such as the personal medical record or the communicating cancer communicable records have recently been introduced. ... Read more...

Excess Hispanic fetal-infant mortality in a midwestern community.

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: We assessed excess fetal-infant mortality for Hispanic, non-Hispanic white, and non-Hispanic black populations in five contiguous counties of Missouri and Kansas. METHODS: We conducted a perinatal periods of risk (PPOR) assessment of ... Read more...

Record linkage to obtain birth outcomes for the evaluation of screening biomarkers in pregnancy: a feasibility study.

7 Jul 2009 BACKGROUND: Linking population health data to pathology data is a new approach for the evaluation of predictive tests that is potentially more efficient, feasible and efficacious than current methods. Studies evaluating the use of first trimester ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Medical Record Linkage'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Improving mammography screening. 30 Oct 2009
• [Electronic health records and biomedical research] 16 Sep 2009
• Mastering the challenge of interoperability in nursing informatics. 30 Aug 2009
• Excess Hispanic fetal-infant mortality in a midwestern community. 30 Aug 2009
• H1N1 influenza, public health preparedness, and health care reform. 25 Aug 2009
• The US health care system: Part 1: our current system. 16 Aug 2009
• Beyond 'meaningful use'. Regional health information exchanges just as important to healthcare IT. 8 Aug 2009
• Using case studies to define nursing informatics interoperability. 30 Jul 2009
• Record linkage to obtain birth outcomes for the evaluation of screening biomarkers in pregnancy: a feasibility study. 7 Jul 2009
• States with the most health information exchanges. 4 Jul 2009
• Reproducing social inequality and unequal treatment in the National Health Information Infrastructure: a discourse analysis of Institute of Medicine executive summaries. 29 Jun 2009
• Social construction of the patient through problems of safety, uninsurance, and unequal treatment. 29 Jun 2009
• Achieving clinical statement interoperability using R-MIM and archetype-based semantic transformations. 29 Jun 2009
• Overdose deaths following previous non-fatal heroin overdose: record linkage of ambulance attendance and death registry data. 29 Jun 2009
• Personalized medicine. Getting genomic data into EMRs proves challenging. 29 Jun 2009
• Curing an integration headache. 29 Jun 2009
• Keeping hoosiers healthy. 29 Jun 2009
• Measuring the effects of health information technology on quality of care: a novel set of proposed metrics for electronic quality reporting. 29 Jun 2009
• Archetype-based conversion of EHR content models: pilot experience with a regional EHR system. 29 Jun 2009
• Creating a National Violent Death Reporting System: a successful beginning. 29 Jun 2009

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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