... a copy of the most recent HIV lab results or medical record including HIV diagnosis from a medical facility; current or recent ... Using HIV surveillance data to monitor missed opportunities for linkage and engagement in HIV medical care. Open AIDS J. 2012;6 ... The Medical Report Form will contain health care appointment data abstracted from their medical chart, and will be signed by a ... Participants will be followed for 6 months with objective assessment of outcomes (using medical records and biomarkers). ...

We merged 3954 records from pathology reports with 4416 reports from the medical records of hospital departments and 3166 ... 7863 records remained. Then, we removed an additional 1616 duplicate records after linkage with INPCR (6247 remained). An ... The main data sources in this study were pathology reports, medical records, and death certificate. However, records from ... Furthermore, 15.2% of reports were collected based on clinical data, including medical records (14%) and imaging reports (1.2 ...

... medical records, laboratory reports, behavioral risk factors, medical examiner and vital records, school records) that is more ... through data linkages). For example, new tuberculosis (TB) cases could be missed because HIV/AIDS data are not cross-matched ... medical records, laboratory reports, behavioral risk factors, medical examiner and vital records, school records) and the right ... linkages to automatic alerting systems for public health personnel); and management support necessary during outbreak ...

Individuals were invited by letter to attend for assessment of their medical history, risk factor status, cognitive function ... Linkage to medical records allowed comparison of the health characteristics of participants and non-participants, yielding an ... That said, the breadth and depth of data collected, linkage to NHS records, and the population-based nature of pSoBid make it ... Eight of the ten GP practices (four in the LD area, four in the MD area) selected for the study use GPASS to record their ...

Community health and nutrition workers acted as conveners and record keepers. Links with the community involved awareness ... and weak linkages with the broader health system. Our study suggests that VHSNCs perform few of their specified functions for ... and supporting medical treatment for ill or malnourished children and pregnant mothers. In reality, 62 % committees monitored ... This work was supported by UK Medical Research Council (MR/K007270/1), the Wellcome Trust (099708/Z/12/Z) and the Department ...

HIV status data was extracted from clinical records. CMD and scoring below the educational norm on the test of verbal fluency ... voluntary informed consent was sought for participation in research interviews and data linkage with HIV test results. Baseline ... The aim of Umeed was to measure cognitive functioning in the selected domains most likely to have an impact upon linkage to ... Participants were recruited at the time of attending for pre-test counselling and testing for HIV/AIDS at Goa Medical College. ...

As the participant records captured in the CDW lack a unique patient identifier, a linkage algorithm was developed to identify ... HE2RO and NHLS fall under the FWA of the University of the Witwatersrand Human Ethics Review Committee (Medical). No data will ... the study team will work closely with NHLS to complete the integration of the record linkage algorithm we developed into the ... To date, this linkage is only done internally within the NHLS database (i.e., we linked CD4 tests to VL tests from the same ...

Outpatient medical records were reviewed to get extra medical information on history, including the presenting symptoms, ... All the cases were "probable" based on their clinical characteristics and epi-linkage to animal cases, that were laboratory ... Thirty-seven human anthrax cases were recorded in 2011, and 49 human anthrax cases were recorded in 2012. The cases recorded in ... Manicaland Province Medical Directorate, Makoni District Medical Office, Makoni District Veterinary Department; and all the ...

A matched case-control study was conducted by record linkage. Cases (n = 361) were children born in Aberdeen Maternity Hospital ... A matched case-control study was conducted by record linkage. Cases (n = 361) were children born in Aberdeen Maternity Hospital ... a case-control study of medical record data in Yorkshire, UK. Diabetologia. 1997, 40: 933-939. 10.1007/s001250050770. ... Ievins R, Roberts SE, Goldacre MJ: Perinatal factors associated with subsequent diabetes mellitus in the child: Record linkage ...

Accuracy of offspring-reported parental hip fractures: a novel population-based parent-offspring record linkage study. Am J ... Cotinine validation of self-reported smoking during pregnancy in the Swedish medical birth register. Nicotine Tob Res. 2016;18: ... The study was approved by regional committees of medical research ethics in each study centre according to national ... Department of Medical Sciences: Respiratory, Allergy and Sleep Research, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden ...

The records of adult participants in the Scottish Health Survey 2003 were linked with hospital admissions, cancer registrations ... Scottish Health Survey participants consented to passive follow-up via record linkage to the Scotland-wide routine ... Zia Ul-Haq is sponsored by the Higher Education Commission, Pakistan "Development of Khyber Medical University". ... linkage of study participants to routinely collected records for mortality, hospital discharge, cancer and offspring birth ...

... and 3104 Dutch Caucasian babies born 2006-2009 were obtained from well-baby clinic records. LBW was defined as a birth weight & ... As this study encompassed routinely collected data from medical records, under Dutch law approval by an ethical review ... a record linkage study. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2009, 63: 761-765. 10.1136/jech.2008.080440. ... A total of 2014 records of Surinamese South Asian children and 3104 records of Dutch children remained for the analyses. ...

The linkage, harmonization, and analysis of data from different sources are being carried out using piloted tools to optimize ... University Medical Centre was assigned social factors and perceived environment variables harmonization, Erasmus Medical Centre ... The linkage, harmonization, and analysis of data from different sources are being carried out using piloted tools to optimize ... RECORD received ethical approval from the Commission Nationale de lInformatique et des Libertés. LUCAS received ethical ...

Each interview was digitally recorded and transcribed. Transcripts were analyzed used content analysis method according to Elo ... Uptake, accuracy, safety, and linkage into care over two years of promoting annual self-testing for HIV in Blantyre, Malawi: a ... Each interview was digitally recorded and transcribed. Transcripts were analyzed used content analysis method according to Elo ... Emerging health intervention studies in China have used WeChat to promote compliance with medical recommendations and have ...

We also recorded whether the study had a primary focus on migrant health or not. If authors made an explicit link between the ... The Graduate Entry Medical School, University Of Limerick Campus, Plassey Park Road, Castletroy Co., Limerick, V94T9PX, Ireland ... Scottish health and ethnicity linkage study). PLoS Med. 2018;15(3):e1002515. ... Of 7799 records screened, 3350 (43%) were excluded because they were unrelated to migrant health and 2283 (29%) were excluded ...

... determined PD underreporting at the death record. The purpose of this study was to describe and analyse municipal mortality due ... The shift that took place in Sweden in the early 1980s from recording PD as a contributory cause of death to recording it as ... Martínez M, Brice A, Vaughan JR, Zimprich A, Breteler BMM, Meco G, et al: Genome-wide scan linkage analysis for Parkinsons ... nor a survey based on diagnoses collected by the medical services in Lower Aragon, a region lying close to the north-eastern ...

Without linkage there still is the potential of duplication of patients within the records and therefore there is a small ... There is now an increasing body of medical research using the HES and PEDW databases; nevertheless, a recent systematic review ... of records in England and Wales. Of these records, 96.1% (n = 1803) of patients were recorded as identifying with being white. ... Surveillance of British ticks: an overview of species records, host associations, and new records of Ixodes ricinus ...

National Health and Medical Research Council. NHMRC CEO Statement: Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) Australian Government; ... Interviews lasted on average 49 min (range 25-86 min) and were audio-recorded with participant consent. Participants were ... to facilitate data organisation and linkage. The lead author conducted all coding, allowing for a single researcher to be ... The data collection guide includes the information recorded about the interview, participants demographic and behavioural ...

Up to 20,199 cholera cases were recorded. Sixty percent of the cases were between 20 and 40 years and about 58% (11,694) ... An extensive review of all district records on cholera cases in the Greater Accra region was carried out. Index cases were ... The linkage was drawn based on the history of visit, people contacted, as well as food and water consumed prior to the onset of ... Ghana Medical Journal. 2012;1(1):37-46. doi:10.1016/S1201-9712(96)90076-4. ...

Ronald Stolk at the University Medical Center Groningen and Rudy Meijer at Meijer Medical Ultrasound for their contribution to ... Subcutaneous fat was recorded as the vertical distance from the skin to the linea alba with a 9 L (2.5-8.0 MHz) transducer in ... Based on prior experience in the use of Statistics Denmark linkage for event follow up, we expect to achieve a 90% completeness ... Visceral fat was recorded at the same location, with a 4 C (1.5-4.5 MHz) transducer placed longitudinally, as the vertical ...

... while functional integration measured common information systems or patient records. Gaps were identified in measuring systems ... Patient data included medical records and household surveys. Using patient records, Moucheraud et al. examined whether patients ... Levels and predictors of TB-HIV diagnostic service linkage and testing in government hospitals of southern zone of Tigray, ... Of these, 10 used facility-level data [32, 34, 35, 49, 50, 52, 55, 57, 58, 65], and five used patient medical records [33, 37, ...

A higher proportion of cases found in both registries were recorded as neuroborreliosis in MSIS (84.4 %) than those cases ... except for geographical location of exposureThe NPR-MSIS linkage identified 1047 cases in both registries, while 363 were only ... of neuroborreliosis in MSIS was not significantly different from the trend for all other clinical manifestations recorded in ... Data quality was assessed through a review of data from 1996 to 2013 in MSIS and a linkage of MSIS data from 2008 to 2012 with ...

Non-specific medical problems were mentioned that affected organs (lungs, heart, kidneys, gall-bladder, appendix, and stomach ... The purpose of the current study was descriptive, which means establishing causal linkages between determinants and health ... All FGDs and key informant interviews were audio recorded, and field notes were taken during interviews. All FGDs with female ... The imperative to continue working in Macao to send remittances home, coupled with low wages and high medical fees, was ...

Record-linkage was performed in order to construct absolute numbers of recorded hospital attendances with IM for each year 2002 ... Department of Pathology, VU Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Jaap Middeldorp. Authors. *Ashvin Kuri. View author ... Associations between clinically diagnosed testicular hypofunction and systemic lupus erythematosus: a record linkage study. ... The East London Primary Care dataset consists of de-identified primary care (General Practitioner, GP) healthcare records from ...

... medical conditions, mental health, self-perceived health, somatic symptoms) and work-related factors (working hours, years in ... study was based on a linkage between the Hordaland Health Study Cohort and the National Insurance Administrations records of ... Krokstad S, Westin S: Disability in society-medical and non-medical determinants for disability pension in a Norwegian total ... The registers contain records of monthly payments of disability pension, and the accuracy is well documented [20]. For all ...

Linkages with LiST and other tools. As previously outlined, LiST is primarily used as a standalone model. However, LiST also ... The South African team revised the medical staff salary estimates in the software, but used the default costs for medicine and ... All interviews were audio recorded. Interviewers took notes during interviews and used audio recordings to verify data and ...

During a mean follow-up of 3.8 years, 2706 CHD and 3264 strokes were recorded. There was a log-linear, positive relationship of ... Since most studies used record linkage with official sources, verification of strokes was not routinely reported. However, 12 ... This project has received support from a National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia program grant (358395) and ... and blood pressure recorded at baseline; (5) date of death (or age at death) recorded during follow-up. Additionally, for ...

... a national record linkage study. BMC Public Health. 2007;7:313. ... Medical Research Center Oulu, Oulu, Finland. Toni Similä & ... For each participant, the dentists recorded all missing teeth. Excluding third molars, we formed the number of missing teeth ... During the oral health examination, the dentists recorded plaque status (none, visible plaque or plaque detected while ...

van Kleffens T, van Baarsen B, van Leeuwen E: The medical practice of patient autonomy and cancer treatment refusals: a ... Of note, some research has identified linkages between light to moderate alcohol consumption and a number of positive health ... all estimates were weighted using the NHIS sample adult record weight. ... Wolsko PM, Eisenberg DM, Davis RB, Ettner SL, Phillips RS: Insurance coverage, medical conditions, and visits to alternative ...

... the linkage was made automatically. Thereafter likely candidates for linkage, based on less perfect matches, e.g., matching ... Table 2 Sensitivity of vaccination record comparing VTS (gold standard) to DSS vaccination information. Full size table. ... Glasgow University Medical Faculty, Glasgow, UK. Ruth Bland. *. Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of ... A limitation of the VTS data is that vaccination status was only recorded if a vaccination was given at the scheduled study ...