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.)

 

• Population Data BC: Supporting population data science in British Columbia

  Tavinder Kaur Ark, Sarah Kesselring, Brent Hills, Kim McGrail

  Published online: Mar 26, 2020

• Population Data Centre Profile - The Western Australian Data Linkage Branch

  Steve Hodges, Tom Eitelhuber, Alexandra Merchant, Janine Alan

  Published online: Mar 11, 2020

• Population Data Centre Profile: SA NT DataLink (South Australia and Northern Territory)

  Matthias Schneider, Christopher Gordon Radbone, Stacy Ann Vasquez, Miroslav Palfy, Andrew Kristjan Stanley

  Published online: Dec 5, 2019

• Population Data Centre Profile: The Manitoba Centre for Health Policy

  Alan Katz, Jennifer Enns, Mark Smith, Charles Burchill, Ken Turner, Dave Towns

  Published online: Feb 25, 2020

• Population Data Centre Profiles: Centre for Data Linkage

  James H Boyd, Sean Randall, Adrian P Brown, Max Maller, Davie Botes, Margo Gillies, Anna Ferrante

  Published online: Mar 11, 2020

• A population level study of SARS-CoV-2 prevalence amongst people experiencing homelessness in Wales, UK

  Ian Thomas, Peter Mackie

  Published online: Dec 2, 2021

• A Position Statement on Population Data Science:

  The science of data about people

  Rachael Moorin, Milton Kotelchuck, Grant Wyper, Tyler Williamson, Christine Williams, Mark Smith, Michael Schull, Claudia Sanmartin, Hude Quan, David Preen, Christine O'Keefe, Ros Moran, Kim McGrail, Hye-Chung Kum, Russell S Kirby, David Ford, Nadine Dougall, Spiros Denaxas, Xinjie Cui, Fabrizio Carinci, Andrew Boyd, Tell Bennett, Ashley Akbari, Kerina Jones

  Published online: Feb 22, 2018

• Poverty and intellectual development in childhood

  Leslie L. Roos, Gilles Detillieux, Gillian Fransoo

  Published online: Nov 17, 2025

• Prevalence estimation of intellectual disability using national administrative and household survey data: The importance of survey question specificity

  Orla McBride, Pauline Heslop, Gyles Glover, Laurence Taggart, Lisa Hanna-Trainor, Mark Shevlin, Jamie Murphy

  Published online: Jan 28, 2021

• Prevalence of Down's Syndrome in England, 1998–2013

  Comparison of linked surveillance data and electronic health records

  James C Doidge, Joan K Morris, Katie L Harron, Sarah Stevens, Ruth Gilbert

  Published online: Mar 19, 2020

• Preventive Care Uptake and Long-Term Healthcare Use Among Children with Fetal Opioid Exposure in Ontario, Canada: A Population-Based Retrospective Cohort Study

  Arum Han, Gabrielle Pratt Tremblay, Michael Pugliese, Deshayne B Fell, Daniel J Corsi

  Published online: Jun 2, 2026

• Privacy preserving linkage using multiple dynamic match keys

  Sean Randall, Adrian P Brown, Anna M Ferrante, James H Boyd

  Published online: Jul 19, 2021

• Probabilistic linkage of national immunisation and state-based health records for a cohort of 1.9 million births to evaluate Australia’s childhood immunisation program

  Heather F Gidding, Peter B McIntyre, Louisa Jorm, Ross M Andrews, Vicky Sheppeard, Christopher C Blyth, Nicholas de Klerk, Bette Liu, Thomas Snelling, Parveen Fathima, Lisa McCallum, Hannah C Moore

  Published online: Sep 18, 2017

• Processes and challenges associated with establishing a linked national suicide database across the criminal justice system

  Alice Rose Dawson, Ms, Verity Wainwright, Dr, Jennifer Shaw, Prof, Jane Senior, Dr, Seena Fazel, Prof, Amanda Perry, Dr, Tammi Walker, Prof, Daniel Pratt, Dr

  Published online: Jun 8, 2021

• Protocol for evaluation of enhanced models of primary care in the management of stroke and other chronic disease (PRECISE)

  A data linkage healthcare evaluation study

  Nadine E Andrew, Joosup Kim, Dominique A Cadilhac, Vijaya Sundararajan, Amanda G Thrift, Leonid Churilov, Natasha A Lannin, Velandai Srikanth, Monique F Kilkenny

  Published online: Aug 5, 2019

• Quantifying Depression-Related Language on Social Media During the COVID-19 Pandemic

  Brent Davis, Dawn Estes McKnight, Daniela Teodorescu, Anabel Quan-Haase, Rumi Chunara, Alona Fyshe, Daniel J. Lizotte

  Published online: Mar 30, 2022

• Record linkage as a vital key player for the COVID-19 syndemic -- The call for legal harmonization to overcome research challenges

  Julia Nadine Doetsch, Eero Kajantie, Vasco Dias, Marit S. Indredavik, Randi Kallar Devold, Raquel Teixeira, Jarkko Reittu, Henrique Barros

  Published online: Jun 13, 2023

• Record linkage for Routinely Collected Health Data in an African Health Information Exchange

  Themba Mutemaringa, Alexa Heekes, Mariette Smith, Andrew Boulle, Nicki Tiffin

  Published online: Mar 2, 2023

• Record linkage to enhance consented cohort and routinely collected health data from a UK birth cohort

  Karen Susan Tingay, Amrita Bandyopadhyay, Lucy Griffiths, Ashley Akbari, Sinead Brophy, Helen Bedford, Mario Cortina-Borja, Efrosini Setakis, Suzanne Walton, Emla Fitzsimons, Carol Dezateux, Ronan Lyons

  Published online: Apr 2, 2019

• Regional and sociodemographic variation of incident first-episode psychosis in Ontario, Canada

  Isobel Sharpe, Amreen Babujee, George Foussias, Simone N Vigod, Paul Kurdyak

  Published online: Oct 30, 2025

• Relative risks of childhood developmental vulnerabilities in three Australian communities with exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances: data linkage study

  Hsei Di Law, Bruce Armstrong, Catherine D'este, Rose Hosking, Kayla Smurthwaite, Susan Trevenar, Nina Lazarevic, Robyn Lucas, Archie Clements, Martyn Kirk, Rosemary Korda

  Published online: Feb 5, 2024

• Reporting of gestational diabetes and other maternal medical conditions

  Validation of routinely collected hospital data from New South Wales, Australia

  Heather J Baldwin, Tanya A Nippita, Kristen Rickard, Siranda Torvaldsen, Therese M McGee, Jillian A Patterson

  Published online: Feb 22, 2021

• Representativeness of survey participants in relation to mental disorders: a linkage between national registers and a population-representative survey

  Natalie C Momen, Mathias Lasgaard, Nanna Weye, Jordan Edwards, John McGrath, Oleguer Plana-Ripoll

  Published online: Oct 19, 2022

• School-recorded special educational needs provision in children with major congenital anomalies: a linked administrative records study of births in England, 2003-2013

  Maria Peppa, Kate M. Lewis, Bianca De Stavola, Pia Hardelid, Ruth Gilbert, on behalf of the HOPE study

  Published online: Feb 11, 2025

• Screening for psychiatric morbidity in the population - a comparison of the GHQ-12 and self-reported medication use

  Foteini Tseliou, Michael Donnelly, Dermot O'Reilly

  Published online: Mar 7, 2018