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.)

 

• 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

• Secondary use of routinely collected administrative health data for epidemiologic research: Answering research questions using data collected for a different purpose

  Scott D. Emerson, Taylor McLinden, Paul Sereda, Amanda M. Yonkman, Jason Trigg, Sandra Peterson, Robert S. Hogg, Kate A. Salters, Viviane D. Lima, Rolando Barrios

  Published online: Nov 19, 2024

• The SEEDS of Indigenous Population Health Data Linkage

  Robyn Rowe, Stephanie Russo Carroll, Chyloe Healy, Desi Rodriguez-Lonebear, Jennifer D Walker

  Published online: Jun 30, 2021

• Semantically Interoperable Census Data: Unlocking the Semantics of Census Data Using Ontologies and Linked Data

  Anderson Wong, Mark Fox, Megan Katsumi

  Published online: May 20, 2024

• Semi-automated data provenance tracking for transparent data production and linkage to enhance auditing and quality assurance in Trusted Research Environments

  Katherine O'Sullivan, Milan Markovic, Jaroslaw Dymiter, Bernhard Scheliga, Chinasa Odo, Katie Wilde

  Published online: Feb 6, 2025

• Spatio-temporal forecasting of COVID-19 cases in the Netherlands for source and contact tracing

  Max Keuken, Jizzo R. Bosdriesz, Anders Boyd, Elisabeth M. den Boogert, Ivo K. Joore, Nicole H.T.M. Dukers – Muijrers, Gini van Rijckevorsel, Hannelore M. Götz, Irene E. Goverse, Mariska W.F. Petrignani, Stijn F.H. Raven, Susan van den Hof, Kirsten V.C. Wevers-de Boer, Maarten F. Schim van der Loeff, Amy Matser

  Published online: May 7, 2025

• Strategies for ascertaining timing of address changes in administrative data

  Joseph Lam, Mario Cortina-Borja, Peter Christen, Richard Thomas, Robert Aldridge, Ruth Blackburn, Ruth Gilbert, Andy Boyd, Katie Harron

  Published online: Dec 10, 2025

• Student Achievement Trajectories in Ontario: Creating and validating a province-wide, multi-cohort and longitudinal database

  Jeanne Sinclair, Scott Davies, Magdalena Janus

  Published online: Feb 2, 2023

• Study protocol: Generation Victoria (GenV) special care nursery registry

  Jing Wang, Yanhong Jessika Hu, Lana Collins, Anna Fedyukova, Varnika Aggarwal, Fiona Mensah, Jeanie L. Y. Cheong, Melissa Wake, and on behalf of the GenV Newborns Working Group

  Published online: Jan 10, 2024

• Supermarket Loyalty Card Data for Delivering and Evaluating Dietary Interventions: A Narrative Review

  Romana Burgess, Alisha Suhag, Anya Skatova

  Published online: Apr 9, 2026

• Tasmanian Data Linkage Unit

  Supporting innovative research, planning and policy formulation in Australia through the provision of high-quality linked-data services.

  Brian Stokes, Nadine Wiggins, Tim Albion, Alison Venn

  Published online: Feb 25, 2020

• The application of population data linkage to capture sibling health outcomes among children and young adults with neurodevelopmental conditions. A scoping review

  Caitlin Gray, Helen Leonard, Matthew N. Cooper, Dheeraj Rai, Emma J. Glasson

  Published online: Mar 18, 2025

• The Baby Hearts Study – a case-control methodology with data linkage to evaluate risk and protective factors for congenital heart disease

  Nichola McCullough, Helen Dolk, Maria Loane, Briege M Lagan, Frank Casey, Brian Craig

  Published online: Apr 8, 2019

• The Canadian Chronic Disease Surveillance System: A model for collaborative surveillance

  Catherine Pelletier, Siobhan O'Donnel, Louise Pelletier, Sean Waits, Linda VanTil, Karen Tu, Lawrence Svenson, Mark Smith, Cynthia Robitaille, Kim Reimer, Rolf Puchtinger, Karen Phillips, Lisa Lix, J. Michael Paterson, Shannon LeBlanc, Sonia Jean, Heather Hannah, Naomi Hamm, Valerie Emond, Joellyn Ellison, Charmaine Cooke, Sharon Bartholomew, James Ayles

  Published online: Oct 5, 2018

• The Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS)

  An Experience of Linking Health and Social Data in Brazil

  Mauricio Lima Barreto, Maria Yuri Ichihara, Bethania de Araujo Almeida, Marcos Ennes Barreto, Liliana Cabral, Rosemeire Fiaccone, Roberto P Carreiro, Carlos Teles, Robespierre Pita, Gerson Penna, Manoel Barral-Netto, M. Sanni Ali, George Barbosa, Spiros Denaxas, Laura Rodrigues, Liam Smeeth

  Published online: Nov 20, 2019

• The centre for health informatics: a novel approach to accelerating the field of health data science

  Danielle A Southern, Cathy A Eastwood, Erin O'Connor, Chelsea Doktorchik, Marcello Tonelli, Jon Meddings, Hude Quan, Tyler S Williamson

  Published online: Mar 21, 2024

• 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