Following Up Crack Users after Hospital Discharge Using Record Linkage Methodology: An Alternative to Find Hidden Populations
Joint Authors
Gonçalves, Veralice Maria
Pedroso, Rosemeri
Santos, Antônio Marcos dos
Diemen, Lisia Von
Pechansky, Flavio
Source
Issue
Vol. 2015, Issue 2015 (31 Dec. 2015), pp.1-5, 5 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2015-09-06
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
5
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
This paper presents the probabilistic record linkage (PRL) methodology as an alternative way to find or follow up hard-to-reach population as crack users.
PRL was based on secondary data from public health information systems and the strategy used from standardization; phonetic encoding and the rounds of matching data were described.
A total of 293 patient records from medical database and two administrative datasets obtained from Ministry of Health Information Systems were used.
Patient information from the medical database was the identifiers to the administrative datasets containing data on outpatient treatment and hospital admissions.
40% of patient records were found in the hospital database and 12% were found in the outpatient database; 95% of the patients were hospitalized up to 5 times, and only 10 out of them had outpatient information.
The record linkage methodology by linking government databases may help to address research questions about the path of patients in the care network without spending time and financial resources with primary data collection.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Gonçalves, Veralice Maria & Pedroso, Rosemeri& Santos, Antônio Marcos dos& Diemen, Lisia Von& Pechansky, Flavio. 2015. Following Up Crack Users after Hospital Discharge Using Record Linkage Methodology: An Alternative to Find Hidden Populations. BioMed Research International،Vol. 2015, no. 2015, pp.1-5.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Gonçalves, Veralice Maria…[et al.]. Following Up Crack Users after Hospital Discharge Using Record Linkage Methodology: An Alternative to Find Hidden Populations. BioMed Research International No. 2015 (2015), pp.1-5.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Gonçalves, Veralice Maria & Pedroso, Rosemeri& Santos, Antônio Marcos dos& Diemen, Lisia Von& Pechansky, Flavio. Following Up Crack Users after Hospital Discharge Using Record Linkage Methodology: An Alternative to Find Hidden Populations. BioMed Research International. 2015. Vol. 2015, no. 2015, pp.1-5.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1057447
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1057447