Allocating Unique Property Reference Numbers (UPRNs) to general practitioner-recorded patient addresses using a deterministic address-matching algorithm: evaluation of representativeness and bias in an ethnically-diverse inner city population
Background with rationale Pseudonymised UPRNs based on patient addresses can be used to link environmental information to electronic health records (EHRs), however the representativeness and potential demographic or health-related biases in linkage using existing address-matching algorithms have not...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Swansea University
2019-11-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Population Data Science |
| Online Access: | https://ijpds.org/article/view/1282 |