Enabling Data Linkage to Maximise the Value of Public Health Research Data : summary report / Public Health Research Data Forum.

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This research was undertaken by an international team comprising researchers based at the University of the West of England (UK), the University of Cape Town (South Africa) and the Centre for Injury Prevention Research, Bangladesh. The report provides a detailed analysis of the benefits and challenges associated with data linkage – surveying the statistical, operational and institutional (ethical, legal and public acceptability) issues and their relative importance in different settings. It makes a series of recommendations to the Public Health Research Data Forum to facilitate the wider uptake of data linkage.

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London : Wellcome Trust, 2015.

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"This project was commissioned by The Wellcome Trust on behalf of the Public Health Research Data Forum. The project aimed to identify the gains to public health research from linking existing data sources, the opportunities in and barriers to such data linking, and how the barriers could be overcome. The objective was to deliver a set of practical recommendations for realising the gains from data linkage. 'Data linkage' is broadly taken to be the linkage of health data within and across organisations, and as well as linkage between different data sources such as hospital admissions, cancer registries, and socio-economic surveys" -- executive summary.

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