Describing the Linkages of the Citizenship and Immigration Canada Permanent Resident Data and Vital Statistics—Death Registry to Ontario’s Administrative Health Database

ABSTRACT Objectives Ontario, the most populous province in Canada, has a universal healthcare system that routinely collects health administrative data on its 13 million legal residents that is used for health research. Record linkage has become a vital tool for this research by enriching this dat...

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Main Authors: Astrid Guttmann, Maria Chiu, Michael Lebenbaum, Kelvin Lam, Nelson Chong, Mahmoud Azimaee, Karey Iron, Doug Manuel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Swansea University 2017-04-01
Series:International Journal of Population Data Science
Online Access:https://ijpds.org/article/view/36