Linkage of Maternity Hospital Episode Statistics data to birth registration and notification records for births in England 2005-2014: Quality assurance of linkage of routine data for singleton and multiple births.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To quality assure a Trusted Third Party linked data set to prepare it for analysis.

Setting

Birth registration and notification records from the Office for National Statistics for all births in England 2005-2014 linked to Maternity Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) delivery records by NHS Digital using mothers' identifiers.

Participants

All 6 676 912 births that occurred in England from 1 January 2005 to 31 December 2014.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

Every link between a registered birth and an HES delivery record for the study period was categorised as either the same baby or a different baby to the same mother, or as a wrong link, by comparing common baby data items and valid values in key fields with stepwise deterministic rules. Rates o

SUBMITTER: Harper G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5855305 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature