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Linking Ambulance, Emergency Department And Hospital Admissions Data: Understanding The Emergency Journey, Julia Crilly, John O'Dwyer, Marilla O'Dwyer, James Lind, Julia Peters, Vivienne Tippett, Marianne Wallis, Nerolie Bost, Gerben Keijzers
Linking Ambulance, Emergency Department And Hospital Admissions Data: Understanding The Emergency Journey, Julia Crilly, John O'Dwyer, Marilla O'Dwyer, James Lind, Julia Peters, Vivienne Tippett, Marianne Wallis, Nerolie Bost, Gerben Keijzers
Gerben Keijzers
Objective: To assess the accuracy of data linkage across the spectrum of emergency care in the absence of a unique patient identifier, and to use the linked data to examine service delivery outcomes in an emergency department (ED) setting.
Design: Automated data linkage and manual data linkage were compared to determine their relative accuracy. Data were extracted from three separate health information systems: ambulance, ED and hospital inpatients, then linked to provide information about the emergency journey of each patient. The linking was done manually through physical review of records and automatically using a data linking tool (Health Data Integration) …