Linking administrative data sets of inpatient infectious diseases diagnoses in far North Queensland: a cohort profile.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To design a linked hospital database using administrative and clinical information to describe associations that predict infectious diseases outcomes, including long-term mortality.

Participants

A retrospective cohort of Townsville Hospital inpatients discharged with an International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems 10th Revision Australian Modification code for an infectious disease between 1 January 2006 and 31 December 2016 was assembled. This used linked anonymised data from: hospital administrative sources, diagnostic pathology, pharmacy dispensing, public health and the National Death Registry. A Created Study ID was used as the central identifier to provide associations between the cohort patients and the subsets of granular data which we

SUBMITTER: Eisen DP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7202725 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature