Development of a Record Linkage Protocol for Use in the Dutch Cancer Registry for Epidemiological Research

Van den Brandt P A (Department of Epidemiology, University of Limburg, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands), L J Schouten, R A Goldbohm, E Dorant and P M H Hunen. Development of a record linkage protocol for use by the Dutch cancer registry for epidemiological research. International Journal of Epidemiology 1990; 19 : 553–558. A method has been developed to determine the optimal linkage key for record linkage between the cancer registry and a large-scale prospective cohort study in the Netherlands. The proposed linkage procedure is a two-stage process in which the initial computeri... Mehr ...