Using a deterministic matching computer routine to identify hospital episodes in a Brazilian de-identified administrative database for the analysis of obstetrics hospitalisations

Using a deterministic matching computer routine to identify hospital episodes in a Brazilian de-identified administrative database for the analysis of obstetrics hospitalisations

Introduction The absence of a unique patient identifier in the Brazilian hospital administrative database prevents the identification of hospital episodes with multiple hospitalisations of the same patient. Objectives This study aims to evaluate the information gain by using a computer routine to...

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Main Authors: Claudia Medina Coeli, Rosa Maria Soares Madeira Domingues, Lana Meijinhos, Daniela Medina Coeli Bastos, Rejane Sobrino Pinheiro, Valeria Saraceni, Marcos Augusto Bastos Dias, Natália Santana Paiva, Kenneth Camargo Jr
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Swansea University 2025-03-01
Series:International Journal of Population Data Science
Subjects:
Hospitalization
Health Administrative Data
Obstetrics
Record Linkage
Computer Applications Software
Online Access:https://ijpds.org/article/view/2467

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