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

• Main Authors: Amminadab L. Eliakundu MClinEpi (Author), Karen Smith PhD (Author), Monique F. Kilkenny PhD, MPH (Author), Joosup Kim PhD (Author), Kathleen L. Bagot PhD (Author), Emily Andrew MBiostats (Author), Shelley Cox PhD (Author), Christopher F. Bladin PhD, MD (Author), Dominique A. Cadilhac PhD, MPH (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2022-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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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...