Studying Hospitalizations and Mortality in the Netherlands: Feasible and Valid Using Two-Step Medical Record Linkage with Nationwide Registers

In the Netherlands, the postal code is needed to study hospitalizations of individuals in the nationwide hospitalization register. Studying hospitalizations longitudinally becomes troublesome if individuals change address. We aimed to report on the feasibility and validity of a two-step medical reco...

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Veröffentlicht in:PloS one 2015-07, Vol.10 (7), p.e0132444-e0132444
Hauptverfasser: Sieswerda, Elske, Font-Gonzalez, Anna, Dijkgraaf, Marcel G W, Geskus, Ronald B, Heinen, Richard C, van der Pal, Helena J, van Leeuwen, Flora E, Caron, Huib N, Kremer, Leontien C, Reitsma, Johannes B
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