Bringing together and analysing data from multiple sources

This category focuses on the datasets themselves and their merging and analyses. This could incorporate secondary use/reuse of health data, routinely collected administrative data, or other emerging sources of data. Here is where we delve into scientific developments (data linkage, analytical advances, methods advancements etc.)

 

• The changing face of Australian data reforms: Impact on pharmacoepidemiology research

  Juliana de Oliveira Costa, Claudia Bruno, Andrea L Schaffer, Smriti Raichand, Emily A Karanges , Sallie-Anne Pearson

  Published online: Apr 15, 2021

• The data we have: Pregnancy and birth related data collection in Australia, Canada, Europe and the USA- A web-based survey of practice

  Kathleen Lamont, NW Scott, S Bhattacharya

  Published online: Mar 22, 2021

• The Desirable Health Indicator: A New Indicator of Population Health and Healthcare Utilisation

  Harri Doel, Lucy J Griffiths , Rhodri David Johnson, Samantha Turner, Ronan A Lyons , Jane Lyons

  Published online: Feb 23, 2026

• The effect of number of healthcare visits on study sample selection in electronic health record data

  Laura Rasmussen-Torvik, Al'ona Furmanchuk, Alexander Stoddard, Kristen Osinski, John Meurer, Nicholas Smith, Elizabeth Chrischilles, Bernard Black, Abel Kho

  Published online: Apr 2, 2020

• The Experience of Establishing Data Sharing & Linkage Platforms for Administrative, Research and Community-Service Data

  Kiran Pohar Manhas, Xinjie Cui, Suzanne C Tough

  Published online: Jan 24, 2019

• The Good, the Bad, the Clunky

  Addressing Challenges in Using Administrative Data for Research

  Kerina Helen Jones, Sharon Heys, Karen S Tingay, Paul Jackson, Chris Dibben

  Published online: Jan 21, 2019

• The impact of cross-jurisdictional patient flows on ascertainment of hospitalisations and cardiac procedures for ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction in an Australian population.

  Branislav Igic, Rachel Farber, Maria Alfaro-Ramirez, Michael A Nelson , Lee K Taylor

  Published online: Feb 8, 2023

• The intergenerational health, social care, and justice system contacts associated with household substance misuse in Wales

  Hywel T Evans, Ian W Farr, Grace A Bailey, Gareth I Davies, Josh Dixon, Sam Fallick, Joanne Maimaris, Columbus Ohaeri, Olabambo Oluwasuji, Ryan Phillips, Matthew Skermer, Delyth James, Josie Smith

  Published online: Jan 14, 2026

• The International Population Data Linkage Network – Banff and Beyond

  William A Ghali, Michael J Schull

  Published online: Aug 28, 2018

• The Mortality After Release from Incarceration Consortium (MARIC): Protocol for a multi-national, individual participant data meta-analysis

  Rohan Borschmann, Holly Tibble, Matthew J Spittal, David Preen, Jane Pirkis, Sarah Larney, David L Rosen, Jesse T Young, Alexander D Love, Frederick L Altice, Ingrid A Binswanger, Anne Bukten, Tony Butler, Zheng Chang, Chuan-Yu Chen, Thomas Clausen, Peer Brehm Christensen, Gabriel J Culbert, Louisa Degenhardt, Anja J.E. Dirkzwager, Kate Dolan, Seena Fazel, Colin Fischbacher, Margaret Giles, Lesley Graham, David Harding, Yen-Fang Huang, Florence Huber, Azar Karaminia, Fiona G Kouyoumdjian, Sungwoo Lim, Lars Møller, Akm Moniruzzaman, Jeffrey Morenoff, Eamonn O'Moore, Lia N Pizzicato, Daniel Pratt, Scott F Proescholdbell, Shabbar I Ranapurwala, Meghan E Shanahan, Jenny Shaw, Amanda Slaunwhite, Julian M Somers, Anne C Spaulding, Marc F Stern, Kendra M Viner, Nadia Wang, Melissa Willoughby, Bin Zhao, Stuart A Kinner

  Published online: Feb 25, 2020

• The nature and extent of the literature on linked reproductive health datasets in the UK: a scoping review

  Jennifer Hall, Lois Harvey-Pescott, Sum Yue (Jessica) Ko, Rose Stevens, Neha Pathak, Ifra Ali, Geraldine Barrett, Jenny Shand, Kelly Dickson

  Published online: Sep 9, 2025

• The Population Health Research Network - Population Data Centre Profile

  Felicity Flack, Merran Smith

  Published online: Nov 20, 2019

• The practicalities of adapting UK maternity clinical information systems for observational research: Experiences of the POOL study

  Fiona Lugg-Widger, Christian Barlow, Rebecca Cannings-John, Chris Gale, Nicola Houlding, Rebecca Milton, Rachel Plachcinski, Michael Robling, Julia Sanders

  Published online: Aug 7, 2023

• The Research Data Centre of the German Federal Employment Agency at the Institute for Employment Research (RDC-IAB)

  Linked Microdata for Labour Market Research

  Manfred Antoni, Alexandra Schmucker

  Published online: Nov 20, 2019

• Data Resource Profile The Scottish Social Care Survey (SCS) and the Scottish Care Home Census (SCHC)

  David Alexander Gunn Henderson, Jennifer Kirsty Burton, Ellen Lynch, David Clark, Julie Rintoul, Nick Bailey

  Published online: Sep 2, 2019

• Cohort profile: The Secure Anonymised Information Linkage databank Dementia e-cohort (SAIL-DeC)

  Christian Schnier, Tim Wilkinson, Ashley Akbari, Chris Orton, Kristel Sleegers, John Gallacher, Ronan A Lyons, Cathie LM Sudlow

  Published online: Feb 25, 2020

• The SPOR-Canadian Data Platform: a national initiative to facilitate data rich multi-jurisdictional research

  Lindsey Todd Dahl, Jennifer D Walker, Michael Schull, P. Alison Paprica, James Ted McDonald, Frank Gavin, Jean-Francois Ethier, Brent Diverty, Kimberlyn McGrail, Alan Katz, Juliana Wu

  Published online: Nov 9, 2020

• Thirty-three myths and misconceptions about population data: from data capture and processing to linkage

  Peter Christen, Rainer Schnell

  Published online: Jan 31, 2023

• Tools for Transparency in Central Government Spending

  Charles Rahal

  Published online: Jul 10, 2019

• UK Longitudinal Linkage Collaboration (UK LLC): The National Trusted Research Environment for Longitudinal Research

  Andy Boyd, Katharine M. Evans, Emma Turner, Robin Flaig, Jacqui Oakley, Kirsteen C. Campbell, Richard Thomas, Stela McLachlan, Matthew Crane, To view the complete list of authors, please see the PDF

  Published online: Feb 17, 2025

• Unlocking the Potential of Electronic Health Records for Health Research

  Seungwon Lee, Yuan Xu, Adam G D'Souza, Elliot A Martin, Chelsea Doktorchik, Zilong Zhang, Hude Quan

  Published online: Jan 30, 2020

• Use of administrative record linkage to measure medical and social risk factors for early developmental vulnerability in Ontario, Canada

  Natasha Ruth Saunders, Magdalena Janus, Joan Porter, Hong Lu, Ashley Gaskin, Gangamma Kalappa, Astrid Guttmann

  Published online: Feb 11, 2021

• Using administrative records to support the linkage of census data: protocol for building a longitudinal infrastructure of U.S. census records

  J. Trent Alexander, Katie R. Genadek

  Published online: Jan 11, 2023

• Using data linkage to monitor COVID-19 vaccination

  Development of a vaccination linked data repository

  Tom Eitelhuber, Sera Ngeh, Lauren Bloomfield, Bhaval Chandaria, Paul Effler

  Published online: Dec 15, 2022

• Using deterministic record linkage to link ambulance and emergency department data: is it possible without patient identifiers?

  A case study from the UK

  Sophie Jane Clark, Mary Halter, Alison Porter, Holly Christina Smith, Martin Brand, Rachael Fothergill, Jaqualine Lindridge, Martin McTigue, Helen Snooks

  Published online: Aug 5, 2019

• Using general practice clinical information system data for research: the case in Australia

  David Youens, Rachael Moorin, Amy Harrison, Richard Varhol, Suzanne Robinson, Caroline Brooks, James Boyd

  Published online: Jan 27, 2020

• Using graph theory to flexibly construct patient journeys in linked healthcare data

  Ian Powell, Zhisheng Sa, Branislav Igic, Maria Alfaro-Ramirez, Rachel Farber, Michael Nelson

  Published online: Oct 9, 2025

• Using linked Census ancestry data to examine all-cause mortality by ethnicity in Australia

  Fiona Stanaway, Lin Zhu, Bree McDonald, Jioji Ravulo, Michelle Dickson, Natasha Nassar, Mei Ling Yap, Louisa Jorm, Sarah Aitken, Leonard Kritharides, Andrew Wilson, Fiona M Blyth, Carmen Huckel Schneider, Saman Khalatbari Soltani, Benjumin Hsu, Liz Allen

  Published online: Sep 11, 2025

• Using Linked Data to Identify Pathways of Reporting Overdose Events in British Columbia, 2015 - 2017

  Eva Graham, Bin Zhao, Mallory Flynn, Paul Gustafson, Michael Irvine, Amanda Slaunwhite, Heather Orpana, Laura MacDougall, Margot Kuo

  Published online: Oct 26, 2022

• Validating a novel deterministic privacy-preserving record linkage between administrative & clinical data: applications in stroke research

  Alisia Southwell, Susan E. Bronskill, Tom Gee, Brendan Behan, Susan G. Evans, Tom Mikkelsen, Elizabeth Theriault, Kirk Nylen, Shannon Lefaivre, Nelson Chong, Mahmoud Azimaee, Natasa Tusevljak, Douglas Lee, Richard H. Swartz

  Published online: Nov 23, 2022

• Validating the QCOVID risk prediction algorithm for risk of mortality from COVID-19 in the adult population in Wales, UK

  Jane Lyons, Vahé Nafilyan, Ashley Akbari, Gareth Davies, Rowena Griffiths, Ewen Harrison, Julia Hippisley-Cox, Joe Hollinghurst, Kamlesh Khunti, Laura North, Aziz Sheikh, Fatemeh Torabi, Ronan Lyons

  Published online: Feb 16, 2022

• Variation in hospital cost trajectories at the end of life by age, multimorbidity and cancer type

  Katharina Diernberger, Xhyljeta Luta, Joanna Bowden, Joanne Droney, Elizabeth Lemmon, Giovanni Tramonti, Bethany Shinkins, Ewan Gray, Joachim Marti, Peter S. Hall

  Published online: Jan 16, 2023

• Visualisation and optimisation of alcohol-related hospital admissions ICD-10 codes in Welsh e-cohort data

  Laszlo Trefan, Ashley Akbari, Jennifer Siân Morgan, Daniel Mark Farewell, David Fone, Ronan A Lyons, Hywel Merfyn Jones, Simon C Moore

  Published online: Mar 24, 2021

• What makes administrative data research-ready?

  A systematic review and thematic analysis of published literature

  Louise Mc Grath-Lone, Matthew A Jay, Ruth Blackburn, Emma Gordon, Ania Zylbersztejn, Linda Wijlaars, Ruth Gilbert

  Published online: Jun 20, 2022