Measuring follow-up time in routinely-collected health datasets: Challenges and solutions.

A key requirement for longitudinal studies using routinely-collected health data is to be able to measure what individuals are present in the datasets used, and over what time period. Individuals can enter and leave the covered population of administrative datasets for a variety of reasons, includin...

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Main Authors: Daniel Thayer, Arfon Rees, Jon Kennedy, Huw Collins, Dan Harris, Julian Halcox, Luca Ruschetti, Richard Noyce, Caroline Brooks
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228545