De-identifying a public use microdata file from the Canadian national discharge abstract database.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) collects hospital discharge abstract data (DAD) from Canadian provinces and territories. There are many demands for the disclosure of this data for research and analysis to inform policy making. To expedite the disclosure of data for some of these purposes, the construction of a DAD public use microdata file (PUMF) was considered. Such purposes include: confirming some published results, providing broader feedback to CIHI to improve data quality, training students and fellows, providing an easily accessible data set for researchers to prepare for analyses on the full DAD data set, and serve as a large health data set for computer scientists and statisticians to evaluate analysis and data mining techniques. The objectiv

SUBMITTER: El Emam K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3179438 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature