Point-of-contact Interactive Record Linkage (PIRL): A software tool to prospectively link demographic surveillance and health facility data

Abstract excerpt

Linking a health and demographic surveillance system (HDSS) to data from a health facility that serves the HDSS population generates a research infrastructure for directly observed data on access to and utilization of health facility services. Many HDSS sites, however, are in areas that lack unique national identifiers or suffer from data quality issues, such as incomplete records, spelling errors, and name and re...

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• Chronic Disease Management Strategies
• Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
• Ethics in Clinical Research
• Global Maternal and Child Health
• HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
• HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
• HIV Research and Treatment

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Literature Corpus work

20397023-3742-5c76-9ecc-bc39eb4cec93

DOI

10.12688/gatesopenres.12751.2