Enhancing observational data through linkage: opportunities and challenges
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When: Tuesday, December 1, 2015, 12–1 p.m.
Where: ICES, G-Wing, Conference Centre (Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre)
Who: Katie Harron, BA, MSc, PhD; Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral research fellow, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Topic: Enhancing observational data through linkage: opportunities and challenges.
Learning objectives:
- To outline the opportunities for using data linkage to improve data quality and ascertainment of outcomes in administrative data.
- To describe some of the challenges associated with error during the linkage process.
- To explore methods for evaluating linkage quality, understanding impact on results of analyses, and reporting studies based on linked administrative data.
Katie Harron