Challenges in linking administrative data for monitoring bloodstream infection in neonatal units in England and Wales
Monitoring risk-adjusted trends of neonatal bloodstream infection is vital and linkage of neonatal electronic health records to national infection surveillance enables this. We demonstrate why changes in data quality over time must be accounted for to minimise spurious findings. First, we evaluat...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Swansea University
2018-06-01
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Series: | International Journal of Population Data Science |
Online Access: | https://ijpds.org/article/view/519 |