Record linkage under suboptimal conditions for data-intensive evaluation of primary care in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Claudia Medina CoeliValeria SaraceniPaulo Mota MedeirosHelena Pereira da Silva SantosLuis Carlos Torres GuillenLuís Guilherme Santos Buteri AlvesThomas HoneChristopher MillettAnete TrajmanBetina DurovniPublished in: BMC medical informatics and decision making (2021)
The adoption of a linkage strategy combining pre-processing routines, deterministic, and probabilistic strategies, as well as an extensive clerical review approach minimized linkage errors in the context of suboptimal data quality.