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 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 Impact of Indirect Transport to a Trauma Centre on Survival for Major Trauma Patients: A National Propensity-Adjusted Observational Study

  Gabrielle Davie, Bridget Dicker, Rebbecca Lilley, Nicola Campbell, Shanthi Ameratunga, Ian Civil, Charles Branas, Papaarangi Reid, Brandon de Graaf, Luisa Montoya, Bridget Kool

  Published online: Jun 9, 2026

• 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

  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