Using record linkage to monitor equity and variation in screening programmes

Using record linkage to monitor equity and variation in screening programmes

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Ecological or survey based methods to investigate screening uptake rates are fraught with many limitations which can be circumvented by record linkage between Census and health services datasets using variations in breast screening a...

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Main Authors: O’Reilly Dermot, Kinnear Heather, Rosato Michael, Mairs Adrian, Hall Clare
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2012-04-01
Series:BMC Medical Research Methodology
Subjects:
Data linkage
Breast screening
Inequalities
Equity monitoring
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2288/12/59

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