Background#R##N#Linkage of aged care and hospitalisation data provides valuable information on patterns of health service utilisation among aged care service recipients. Many aged care datasets in Australia contain a Statistical Linkage Key (SLK-581) instead of full personal identifiers. We linked hospital and death records using a full probabilistic strategy, the SLK-581, and three combined strategies; and compared results for each strategy.
['Lee Taylor', 'Katie Irvine', 'Renee Iannotti', 'Taylor F. Harchak', 'Kim Lim']
Optimal strategy for linkage of datasets containing a statistical linkage key and datasets with full personal identifiers