A New Method for Assessing How Sensitivity and Specificity of Linkage Studies Affects Estimation

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BACKGROUND: While the importance of record linkage is widely recognised, few studies have attempted to quantify how linkage errors may have impacted on their own findings and outcomes. Even where authors of linkage studies have attempted to estimate sensitivity and specificity based on subjects with known status, the effects of false negatives and positives on event rates and estimates of effect are not often...

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