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LinkageWiz News February 2008

Technical Bulletin 101 - Deriving Sex from an Individual’s First Name

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Symposium on Health Data Linkage: Its value for Australian health policy development and policy relevant research: Proceedings

Research use of linked health data – a best practice protocol. C.W. Kelman and A.J. Bass, Department of Health and Ageing, Canberra, C.D.J. Holman, Centre for Health Services Research, Department of Public Health, The University of Western Australia

Presentations

Making the case for Data Matching- examples of positive outcomes from WA - Dr John Bass, University of Western Australia

Data Matching - problems with names - Dr Adrian Esterman, Flinders Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Comparison of Data Linkage Software - Dr Adrian Esterman, Flinders Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics.

The Central Cancer Registry - Dr Wayne Clapton, South Australian Department of Health

A taste of linkage - A overview of how data linkage works

Benefits of data linkage - Looks at the social, scientific, privacy, economic and future benefits of data linkage.

Beyond linkage:Using linked data for policy-relevant research - Data linkage in New South Wales

Centre for Health Record Linkage - Data linkage in New South Wales

Data Linkage WA - Data Linkage in Western Australia

National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy - Data Linkage in Australia

SA Data Linkage Consortium Stakeholders Seminar - The presentation for SA Data Linkage Consortium Stakeholders Seminar

The Lonely Planet Guide for Data Linkage - Data Linkage in Western Australia

The South Australian Data Linkage System - Data Linkage in South Australia

Research Studies using LinkageWiz

A data-matching study of the role of fatigue in work-related crashes	http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1369847806000945
A new hospital service for pregnant women with a suspected fetal abnormality - What are the outcomes 1999–2004?	http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1440-1754.2007.01097.x
Child Sexual Abuse	http://www.urban.org/uploadedpdf/311460_child_abuse.pdf
Clients in Common Project	http://www.familiesandcommunities.sa.gov.au/DesktopModules/SAHT_DNN2_Documents/DownloadFile.aspx?url_getfileid=812
Data linkage to estimate resource and service utilisation for palliative care clients	http://www.publichealth.gov.au/component/option,com_sobi2/sobi2Task,sobi2Details/catid,0/sobi2Id,46/Itemid,44/
Estimating the incidence of hospitalized injurious falls: impact of varying case definitions	http://ip.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/abstract/11/6/334
Foster Care Placement	http://www.urban.org/uploadedpdf/311459_foster_care.pdf
Performance Analysis of a Medical Decision Algorithm to Mitigate Spread of SARS Due to Interfacility Patient Transfers	http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/index/V51246158KTV37R1.pdf
Work-related traffic crashes	http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0001457505001132

Useful Links

Australian Health Outcomes Collaboration	The Australian Health Outcomes Collaboration is a key facilitator of health outcomes research.
California HealthCare Foundation	Independent research, analysis and news on issues affecting health care delivery and financing from the California HealthCare Foundation.
Clinical Outcome Evaluation System (COES)	A program that calculates and reports the SF-36.
Eraser Software	Free software which removes sensitive data from hard disks by securely overwriting the data.
HealthWiz	HealthWiz is a national social health database which enables public access to health and other social and demographic data.
Public Health Evaluation Unit	A Social Health Atlas of Australia (2nd Edition).
Record Linkage Overview	A useful overview of Record Linkage from Wikipedia including naming conventions, methods and history.
SA NT DataLink	SA·NT DataLink provides a high quality data linkage service to support research, policy development, service planning and evaluation.
S2 Geospatial	S2 Geospatial Ltd is a specialist UK-based consultancy for both public and private sector clients in the closely related fields of electronic property gazetteers and digital spatial data.
Succint Ideas	Digital Marketing
South Australia Tourism	Tourism information about South Australia including our great wine districts such as the Barossa Valley.
Western Australian Data Linkage Unit	The Data Linkage Unit is a collaboration between the Information Collection and Management Branch at the Department of Health WA, the Centre for Health Services Research at the University of WA, the Division of Health Sciences at Curtin University of Technology, and the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research. The Unit was established in 1995 to develop and maintain a system of linkages connecting data about health events for individuals in WA. These linkages are created and maintained using rigorous internationally accepted privacy-sensitive protocols, probabilistic matching and extensive clerical review. The core Data Linkage System consists of links within and between the State's seven core population health datasets, spanning 35 years. This is augmented through links to an extensive collection of external research and clinical datasets.