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

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

  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

• The Road to Hell Winds on: The High Administrative Burden of Maintaining Linked National Health Data

  Julie A. Taylor, Christina Pagel, Ferran Espuny Pujol, Sonya Crowe

  Published online: Apr 30, 2026

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

• Understanding Inequalities in Adult Social Care in Wales: Protocol for the CARE Lab Linked Administrative Data Study

  Fiona Victoria Lugg-Widger, Ashley Akbari, Rebecca Cannings-John, Oliver S Cumming, Matthew Curds, Miranda Evans, José-Luis Fernandez, Henrietta Graham, Mala Mann, Melissa Meindl, Abigail Palmer, Lisa Trigg, Nell Warner, Paul Willis, Julie Wych, Simone Willis, Jonathan Scourfield

  Published online: Aug 3, 2026

• 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