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Symposium on Health Data Linkage: Its value for Australian health policy development and policy relevant research: Proceedings


20-21 March 2002, Potts Point, Sydney, New South Wales

PHIDU produced the Proceedings for the Symposium on Health Data Linkage: Its value for Australian health policy development and policy relevant research to provide access to the papers delivered at the Symposium held on 20-21 March 2002 in Sydney, New South Wales. Information has been reproduced as submitted by the author(s). The contents of each of the papers are therefore the sole responsibility of the presenting author(s). Readers seeking further information are encouraged to contact the relevant author(s) directly. Information provided in the proceedings includes: a copy of the program as published, the abstracts, and the papers.

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Proceedings: contents/ symposium program     Abstracts


Symposium papers (by topic)

Health Services Research

Health Outcomes

Socioeconomic and Environmental Determinants

Surveillance and Adverse Events

Privacy and Process Issues

Methods


Symposium papers (alphabetical order, by presenter surname)

Nick Andrews. The value of linked data for research into surveillance and adverse events

John Bass. Statistical linkage keys: How effective are they?

Rohan Baxter. Health service use questions addressable by the Queensland linked data set (Not submitted)

Kate Brameld. The effect of locational and social disadvantage on utilisation and outcomes of health care: Cardiovascular disease

Elisabeth Bui. The potential of linking environmental, socio-economic and health data for health policy development (Not submitted)

Peter Christen. Parallel computing techniques for high-performance probabilistics record linkage

Tim Churches. The use of probabilistic record linkage, public key cryptography and trusted third parties to improve the protection of personal privacy and confidentiality in disease registers and tissue banks

Wayne Clapton. Data linkage and the South Australian Cancer Registry

Rebecca Coghlan. Consumer involvement in the Centre for Health Services Research

Judith Finn. The use of linked ambulance data to estimate the effect of comorbidity on determinants and outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Perth, Western Australia

Carol Garfield. Inside the Western Australian data linkage system

Geoff Gawthorne. Death subsequent to treatment for heroin and amphetamine use: A record linkage study

John Glover. Unpacking analyses relying on area-based data: Are the assumptions supportable?

Michael Goldacre. The value of linked data for policy development, strategic planning, clinical practice and public health: An international perspective

Michael Goldacre. The value of linked data for research into the social determinants of health: An international perspective

Michael Hobbs. Uses of the record linkage in planning services for the prevention and control of cardiovascular disease

Chris Kelman. The value of linked data for research into health services use and expenditure: An Australian perspective

Crystal Laurvick. Ovarian cancer in Western Australia, 1982-98: A population-based review of trends and outcomes

Jianghong Li. Trends in cataract surgery and post-operative endophthalmitis in Western Australia (1980-1998): A population-based study

Kim Lim. From evidence to practice: Population-based monitoring of the use of breast-conserving surgery for the treatment of breast cancer using record linkage of routinely collected data

Andrew McAlindon. Data linkage to estimate resource and service utilisation for palliative care clients

Luke Marinovich. The sensitivity of probabilistic record linkage: Estimating the number of "false negatives" in a linkage involving client records of a large domiciliary care organisation

Ric Marshall. Issues in the use of unique patient identifiers to link statistical data

Stephen Moo. Linked health data in the Northern Territory

Chris Puplick. Electronically linked health records: Current proposals in NSW (Not submitted)

Gail Reading. The use of record linkage in epidemiological research into maternal and child health: Introduction and overview of the maternal child health research database (MCHRDB)

Thomas V. Riley. Surgical site infections following orthopaedic surgery: Statewide surveillance using linked administrative databases

Leslie Roos. Record linkage: Data quality, tool development and substantive research

Noralou Roos. Inequalities in child health: Bringing together new data sources to assess the roles of family, community, education and health care

Diana Rosman. Measuring data and link quality in a dynamic multi-set linkage system

Diana Rosman. Estimating the cost of injury using the Western Australian Data Linkage System and Injury Cost Database

James Semmens. Evolving treatments for primary urolithiasis: Impact on services and renal preservation in 16,679 patients in Western Australia

Marian Shanahan and Kees Van Gool. Linking the prairies to the outback: What can New South Wales learn from the Manitoba Data Linkage Project?

Richard Smallwood. The value of linked data for policy development, strategic planning, clinical practice and public health: An Australian perspective

Christine Stone. From data linkage to policy and back again: A preliminary report on the linkage of neonatal data in Victoria

Vijaya Sundararajan. Linkage of the Victorian Admitted Episodes Dataset

Vijaya Sundararajan. Rates and patterns of participation in cardiac rehabilitation in Victoria

Lee Taylor. The use of linked data in health surveillance in New South Wales

Shilu Tong. Data linkage in the public health assessment of ecosystem change (Not submitted)

Anne Young. Putting data into context: Findings from linking Medicare health service use and expenditure data with longitudinal health survey data

Symposium papers (by topic)

Health Services Research

Rohan Baxter. Health service use questions addressable by the Queensland linked data set (Not submitted)

Michael Hobbs. Uses of the record linkage in planning services for the prevention and control of cardiovascular disease

Chris Kelman. The value of linked data for research into health services use and expenditure: An Australian perspective

Leslie Roos. Record linkage: Data quality, tool development and substantive research

Marian Shanahan and Kees Van Gool. Linking the prairies to the outback: What can New South Wales learn from the Manitoba Data Linkage Project?

Health Outcomes

Judith Finn. The use of linked ambulance data to estimate the effect of comorbidity on determinants and outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Perth, Western Australia

Geoff Gawthorne. Death subsequent to treatment for heroin and amphetamine use: A record linkage study

Crystal Laurvick. Ovarian cancer in Western Australia, 1982–98: A population-based review of trends and outcomes

Kim Lim. From evidence to practice: Population-based monitoring of the use of breast-conserving surgery for the treatment of breast cancer using record linkage of routinely collected data

Gail Reading. The use of record linkage in epidemiological research into maternal and child health: Introduction and overview of the maternal child health research database (MCHRDB)

Vijaya Sundararajan. Rates and patterns of participation in cardiac rehabilitation in Victoria

Socioeconomic and Environmental Determinants

Kate Brameld. The effect of locational and social disadvantage on utilisation and outcomes of health care: Cardiovascular disease

Elisabeth Bui. The potential of linking environmental, socio-economic and health data for health policy development (Not submitted)

John Glover. Unpacking analyses relying on area-based data: Are the assumptions supportable?

Michael Goldacre. The value of linked data for research into the social determinants of health: An international perspective

Noralou Roos. Inequalities in child health: Bringing together new data sources to assess the roles of family, community, education and health care

Shilu Tong. Data linkage in the public health assessment of ecosystem change (Not submitted)

Anne Young. Putting data into context: Findings from linking Medicare health service use and expenditure data with longitudinal health survey data

Surveillance and Adverse Events

Nick Andrews. The value of linked data for research into surveillance and adverse events

Jianghong Li. Trends in cataract surgery and post-operative endophthalmitis in Western Australia (1980–1998): A population-based study

Thomas V. Riley. Surgical site infections following orthopaedic surgery: Statewide surveillance using linked administrative databases

Diana Rosman. Measuring data and link quality in a dynamic multi-set linkage system

James Semmens. Evolving treatments for primary urolithiasis: Impact on services and renal preservation in 16,679 patients in Western Australia

Christine Stone. From data linkage to policy and back again: A preliminary report on the linkage of neonatal data in Victoria

Privacy and Process Issues

Tim Churches. The use of probabilistic record linkage, public key cryptography and trusted third parties to improve the protection of personal privacy and confidentiality in disease registers and tissue banks

Rebecca Coghlan. Consumer involvement in the Centre for Health Services Research

Michael Goldacre. The value of linked data for policy development, strategic planning, clinical practice and public health: An international perspective

Ric Marshall. Issues in the use of unique patient identifiers to link statistical data

Stephen Moo. Linked health data in the Northern Territory

Chris Puplick. Electronically linked health records: Current proposals in NSW (Not submitted)

Richard Smallwood. The value of linked data for policy development, strategic planning, clinical practice and public health: An Australian perspective

Lee Taylor. The use of linked data in health surveillance in New South Wales

Methods

John Bass. Statistical linkage keys: How effective are they?

Peter Christen. Parallel computing techniques for high-performance probabilistics record linkage

Wayne Clapton. Data linkage and the South Australian Cancer Registry

Carol Garfield. Inside the Western Australian data linkage system

Andrew McAlindon. Data linkage to estimate resource and service utilisation for palliative care clients

Luke Marinovich. The sensitivity of probabilistic record linkage: Estimating the number of "false negatives" in a linkage involving client records of a large domiciliary care organisation

Diana Rosman. Estimating the cost of injury using the Western Australian Data Linkage System and Injury Cost Database

Vijaya Sundararajan. Linkage of the Victorian Admitted Episodes Dataset