Linking Data From the Australian Stroke Clinical Registry With Ambulance and Emergency Administrative Data in Victoria.

ABSTRACT: Objective: In Australia, approximately 3 in 4 people with acute stroke use an ambulance. Few examples of merging ambulance clinical records, hospital government data, and national registry data for stroke exist. We sought to understand the advantages of using linked datasets for describing the full clinical journey of people with stroke and the possibility of investigating their long-term outcomes based on pre-hospital management of stroke. Method: Patient-level data from the Australian Stroke Clinical Registry (AuSCR) (January 2013-October 2017) were linked with Ambulance Victoria (AV) records and Victorian Emergency Minimum Dataset (VEMD). Probabilistic iterative matching on personal identifiers were used and records merged with a project specific identification number.

SUBMITTER: Eliakundu AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9127850 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature