De-duplicating patient records from three independent data sources reveals the incidence of rare neuromuscular disorders in Germany

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BACKGROUND: Estimation of incidence in rare diseases is often challenging due to unspecific and incomplete coding and recording systems. Patient- and health care provider-driven data collections are held with different organizations behind firewalls to protect the privacy of patients. They tend to be fragmented, incomplete and their aggregation leads to further inaccuracies, as the duplicated records cannot...

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