Evaluating the quality of anonymous record linkage using deterministic procedures with the New York state aids registry and a hospital discharge file

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Linkage of same-person records across multiple databases relies on high-quality, uniformly available identifying information. These data quality issues become increasingly important when personal names are not available for record linkage. Using deterministic decision criteria, we linked records from two population-based files in the absence of personal names. The sensitivity of anonymous record linkage...

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