Developing a national birth cohort for child health research using a hospital admissions database in England: The impact of changes to data collection practices.

ABSTRACT:

Background

National birth cohorts derived from administrative health databases constitute unique resources for child health research due to whole country coverage, ongoing follow-up and linkage to other data sources. In England, a national birth cohort can be developed using Hospital Episode Statistics (HES), an administrative database covering details of all publicly funded hospital activity, including 97% of births, with longitudinal follow-up via linkage to hospital and mortality records. We present methods for developing a national birth cohort using HES and assess the impact of changes to data collection over time on coverage and completeness of linked follow-up records for children.

Methods

We developed a national cohort of singleton live births in 1998-2015, with info

SUBMITTER: Zylbersztejn A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7737962 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature