Development of Indirect Health Data Linkage on Health Product Use and Care Trajectories in France: Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

European national disparities in the integration of data linkage (ie, being able to match patient data between databases) into routine public health activities were recently highlighted. In France, the claims database covers almost the whole population from birth to death, offering a great research potential for data linkage. As the use of a common unique identifier to directly link personal data is often limited, linkage with a set of indirect key identifiers has been developed, which is associated with the linkage quality challenge to minimize errors in linked data.

Objective

The aim of this systematic review is to analyze the type and quality of research publications on indirect data linkage on health product use and care trajectories in France.

Methods

SUBMITTER: Ranchon F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10236279 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature