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.)

 

• 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

• 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