Record linkage techniques can help identify the same patient for matching diverse files
(hospital discharge abstracts, insurance claims, registries, Vital Statistics data) which contain …

The article on the transfer of medical records by Dr. John Biehn (Can Med Assoc J 1984;
130: 563) is excellent and timely. Through years of attempts I have found that the quickest …

BOOK REVIEWS only 3 per cent of all discharges from short-stay hospitals (National Center
for Health Statistics-Hospital Discharge Survey, Oct.-Dec. 1964), and perhaps 6 per cent of …

We consider the problem of record linkage in the situation where we have only non‐unique
identifiers, like names, sex, race etc., as common identifiers in databases to be linked. For …

Retention and destruction of medical records Page 1 October MEDICUS 41 OPINION
Retention and Destruction of Medical Records by Dannielle Stokeld Medico-legal Adviser (Solicitor) …

Over the past 29 years, the Regenstrief Medical Record System (RMRS) has grown from a
small program using fixed data structures to store information on 35 patients cared for in a …

CMA recognizes the public's righttolegalrecourse in theeventofallegedmedicalnegligence;
atthe same time, CMA wants to ensure that physicians are not subject to undue uncertainty …

OBJECTIVES--To report on the development of computer assisted methods for linking
medical records and record abstracts. DESIGN--The methods include file blocking, to put …

Medical Association. My attention was drawn to the article1 by Dr Faloon et al in the March
2002 issue of Canadian Family Physician. Figure 2 was a document entitled “Patient …