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Record W4378349663 · doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckab164.515

Country experiences with data linkage initiatives

2021· article· en· W4378349663 on OpenAlexaffabout
Sara Allin, Saira Ghafur

Bibliographic record

VenueEuropean Journal of Public Health · 2021
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldDecision Sciences
TopicData Quality and Management
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMicrodata (statistics)IdentifierGovernment (linguistics)Record linkageHealth careLinkage (software)MedicineCensusEnvironmental healthPolitical scienceComputer sciencePopulation

Abstract

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Abstract This session highlights the experience from two countries in data linkage: Canada and the UK. Canada's ten provinces and three territories have primary responsibility for the organization and delivery of health care services and for the supervision of health care providers. As such, many data linkage initiatives are at the provincial level, and the recent Health Data Research Network aims to facilitate access to multi- province data for researchers. Also the Social Data Linkage Environment (SDLE) represents a national effort led by the federal government (Statistics Canada). The SDLE has a centrally maintained ‘key register' containing new identifiers based on a number of identifying characteristics which are used to link a wide range of data sets, including the Labour Force Survey, national health surveys, the hospital discharge database, census data, and a range of provincial data on crime, education, mental health, etc. Thus, the SDLE is not a consolidated database per se, but a tool to link other databases, and has potential for use in scientific research. Similar to Canada, the different nations of the UK operate separate data linkage initiatives. One internationally renowned national database, the Clinical Research Practice Datalink (CPRD), reflects the important role of GPs. The CPRD brings together de-identified microdata data from GP practices in the UK on the basis of the respective electronic practice information systems. The data collected includes demographic details, information on service providers, clinical presentation, referrals, vaccinations, laboratory findings and medication prescriptions, with the ability to link to other data sets to research the care pathway. As of 2019, the CPRD data covers 42 million patients and has been used for more than 2000 scientific publications that have researched issues such as drug safety, drug use, the effectiveness of health policy measures, the organization of service delivery and the development of risk factors.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.059
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.870
Threshold uncertainty score0.968

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0590.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.003
Open science0.0020.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.556
GPT teacher head0.478
Teacher spread0.078 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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