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.)

 

• Association between neighbourhood composition, kindergarten educator-reported distance learning barriers, and return to school concerns during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, Canada

  Natalie Spadafora, Jade Wang, Caroline Reid-Westoby, Magdalena Janus

  Published online: Apr 4, 2023

• Building the National Database of Health Centred on the Individual: Administrative and Epidemiological Record Linkage - Brazil, 2000-2015

  Augusto Afonso Guerra Junior, Ramon Gonçalves Pereira, Eli Iola Gurgel, Mariangela Cherchiglia, Leonardo Vinicius Dias, Juliano Ávila, Núbia Santos, Afonso Reis, Francisco Assis Acurcio, Wagner Meira Junior

  Published online: Nov 14, 2018

• Can Linked Electronic Medical Record and Administrative Data Help Us Identify Those Living with Frailty?

  Sabrina Wong, Alan Katz, Tyler Williamson, Alexander Singer, Sandra Peterson, Carole Taylor, Morgan Price, Rita McCracken, Manpreet Thandi

  Published online: Oct 14, 2020

• Canadian Metadata Catalogue for Health Science Research

  Allan Garland, Peter Dodek, Kednapa Thavorn, Rita Wissa, Wendy Sligl, Wynona Marleau, M. Elizabeth Wilcox, Isabel Fortier, for the Sepsis Canada Network

  Published online: Jul 9, 2026

• A case study in distributed team science in research using electronic health records

  Jiao Song, Elizabeth Elliot, Andrew D Morris, Joannes J Kerssens, Ashley Akbari, Simon Ellwood-Thompson, Ronan A Lyons

  Published online: Sep 21, 2018

• Centre for Health Record Linkage

  expanding access to linked population data for NSW and the ACT, Australia

  Katie Irvine, Rick Hall, Lee Taylor

  Published online: Oct 19, 2020

• Challenges Associated with Cross-Jurisdictional Analyses using Administrative Health Data and Primary Care Electronic Medical Records in Canada

  Alan Katz, Jennifer Enns, Sabrina T Wong, Tyler Williamson, Alexander Singer, Kimberlyn McGrail, Jeffery A Bakal, Carole Taylor, Sandra Peterson

  Published online: Oct 5, 2018

• Challenges in accessing routinely collected data from multiple providers in the UK for primary studies: Managing the morass.

  Fiona V Lugg-Widger, Lianna Angel, Rebecca Cannings-John, Kerenza Hood, Kathryn Hughes, Gwenllian Moody, Michael Robling

  Published online: Sep 12, 2018

• Characterising firearm-related databases across Canada: opportunities for data linkage to inform understanding of injury burden and prevention

  Aliki Karanikas, David Gomez, Tharani Raveendran, Natasha Saunders

  Published online: Jun 24, 2025

• Characterizing social and policy determinants of hospital length of stay among paediatric inpatients with diabetes using linked population-based data

  Heather Higgins, Neeru Gupta

  Published online: Dec 7, 2021

• Child Health Research Using Linked Multi-Domain Canadian Administrative Data: A Scoping Review

  Yen My Vuu, Marcelo L. Urquia, Lisa M. Lix, Amani F. Hamad

  Published online: Jul 7, 2026

• Child Outcomes for Mothers Facing Trial (COMFT): Protocol for a multi-national data linkage study to understand caregiver arrangements for children of mothers involved in the criminal and family justice systems

  Karen Broadhurst, Bachar Alrouh, Leslie Humphreys, Laura Elizabeth Cowley, Laura North, Kathryn Tranter, Claire Hargreaves, Amy Mizen, Lucy J Griffiths

  Published online: Jun 4, 2026

• Childhood adversity, mental health and suicide (CHASE): a protocol for a longitudinal case-control linked data study

  Nadine J Dougall, Jan Savinc, Margaret Maxwell, Thanos Karatzias, Rory C O'Connor, Brian Williams, Graeme Grandison, Ann John, Helen Cheyne, Claire Fyvie, Jonathan I Bisson, Carina Hibberd, Susan Abbott-Smith, Liz Nolan

  Published online: Apr 2, 2020

• The Children’s Data Network

  Harnessing the Scientific Potential of Linked, Administrative Data to Inform Children’s Programs and Policies

  Regan Foust, Jonathan Hoonhout, Andrea Eastman, John Prindle, Rebecca Rebbe, Huy Nghiem, Himal Suthar, Stephanie Cuccaro-Alamin, Michael Mitchell, William Dawson, Lindsey Palmer, Siddharth Raj, Eunhye Ahn, Ivy Hammond, Claire McNellan, Julia Reddy, Wan-Ting Chen, Kamilah Mayfield, Emily Putnam-Hornstein, Jacquelyn McCroskey

  Published online: Mar 23, 2022

• Chronic Disease Surveillance in Alberta’s Tomorrow Project using Administrative Health Data

  Ming Ye, Jennifer Vena, Jeffrey Johnson, Grace Shen-Tu, Dean Eurich

  Published online: Oct 21, 2021

• Cleaning and validating longitudinal maternal and child postcode histories from a national healthcare registry for environmental health research in London, UK

  Pia Hardelid [Joint First Author], Glory Atilola [Joint First Author], Amal Rammah, Bianca De Stavola, Tom Clemens, Steve Cunningham , Chris Dibben, Samantha Hajna, Alison Macfarlane, Ai Milojevic, Jonathon Taylor, Linda Wijlaars

  Published online: Feb 5, 2026

• Closing the UK care home data gap – methodological challenges and solutions

  Closing the UK care home data gap

  Jennifer Kirsty Burton, Claire Goodman, Bruce Guthrie, Adam L Gordon, Barbara Hanratty, Terry J Quinn

  Published online: Dec 15, 2020

• Cohort Profile Update: Reflecting back and looking ahead: Updating the Comparative Outcomes and Service Utilization Trends (COAST) Study to include 28 years of linked data from people with and without HIV in British Columbia, Canada

  Michael O. Budu, Katherine W. Kooij, Kate Heath, Taylor McLinden, Claudette Cardinal, Scott D. Emerson, Paul Sereda, Jason Trigg, Jenny Li, Erin Ding, Mark W. Hull, Kate Salters, Viviane D. Lima, Rolando Barrios, Julio S. G. Montaner, Robert S. Hogg, for the COAST Study Team

  Published online: Mar 6, 2025

• Cohort profile: A population-based record linkage platform to address critical epidemiological evidence gaps in respiratory syncytial virus and other respiratory infections

  Minda Sarna, Belaynew Taye, Huong Le, Fiona Giannini, Kathryn Glass, Christopher C Blyth, Peter Richmond, Rebecca Glauert, Avram Levy, Hannah C Moore

  Published online: Apr 11, 2024

• Cohort profile: Creation of an E-cohort to Address the Evaluation of Population Secondary Prevention Quality and Outcomes Post-Stroke (ESP-QOPS) in Wales

  Daniel King, Elizabeth A. Ellins, Hywel T. Evans, Nicholas R. Evans, Mike Gravenor, Julian Halcox, Jonathan Hewitt, Manju Krishnan, Barry McDonnell, Keeron Stone, Daniel E. Harris, Ashley Akbari

  Published online: Apr 21, 2026

• Cohort profile: The SAIL long-term conditions e-cohort (SLTC cohort) investigating area-level changes in healthcare resource use in Wales

  Timothy Osborne, Rowena Bailey, Amy Mizen, Richard Fry, Ronan A Lyons

  Published online: Jun 17, 2025

• Cohort profile: working age adults accessing secondary mental health services in South London (UK) and benefits – a data linkage of electronic mental health records and benefits data.

  Ava Phillips, Ray Leal , Amelia Jewell , Ira Madan, Johnny Downs, Matthew Broadbent, Matthew Hotopf, Sarah Dorrington, Nicola T. Fear, Sharon A.M. Stevelink

  Published online: May 23, 2024

• The Common governance model: a way to avoid data segregation between existing trusted research environment

  Fatemeh Torabi, Chris Orton, Emma Squires, Sharon Heys , Richard Hier, Ronan A. Lyons, Simon Thompson

  Published online: Nov 9, 2023

• Community-based Health Data Cooperatives Towards Improving the Immigrant Community Health: A Scoping Review to Inform Policy and Practice

  Iffat Naeem, Hossain AKM Nurul, Marcus Vaska, Suzanne Goopy, Ruksana Rashid, Anusha Kassan, Fariba Aghajafari, Ilyan Ferrer, Ahsan Kazi, Iftekhar Sadi, Maeve O'Beirne, Charles Leduc, Tanvir C Turin

  Published online: Jun 23, 2020

• A comparison of Australian chronic disease prevalence estimates using administrative pharmaceutical dispensing data with international and community survey data

  Shaun Francis Purkiss, Tessa Keegel, Hassan Vally, Dennis Wollersheim

  Published online: Dec 11, 2020