Published Work
Here are some examples of work that the Record Linkage Team has been involved in.
Research
Cancer
- Risk of Skin Cancer after Phototherapy for Neonatal Jaundice: Retrospective Cohort Study. Author(s): David H Brewster, Janet S Tucker, Michael Fleming, Carole Morris, Diane L Stockton, David J Lloyd, Sohinee Bhattacharya, James WT Chalmers. Archives of Disease in Childhood (Published 23rd June 2010) http://adc.bmj.com/content/early/2010/06/23/adc.2009.179275.abstract
Obstetrics
- Time of birth and risk of neonatal death at term: retrospective cohort study Dharmintra Pasupathy. Author(s): Angela M Wood, Jill P Pell, Michael Fleming, and Gordon C S Smith. BMJ 2010;341:c3498, doi: 10.1136/bmj.c3498 (Published 15 July 2010) http://www.bmj.com/content/341/bmj.c3498.abstract
- Secular trends in obstetric antecedents of preterm birth and associated neonatal outcomes in Scotland Presentation by Carole Morris at ‘Exploiting existing data for Health Research’ Conference, St Andrews University September 2009
Paediatrics
- Adhesions Following Abdominal Surgery in Children Author(s): Hugh W Grant, Michael C Parker, Malcolm S Wilson, Donald Menzies, Graham Sunderland, Jeremy N Thompson, David N Clark, Alastair D Knight, Alison M Crowe, Harold Ellis. Source Paediatr. Surg January 2008 (Vol. 43, Issue 1, Pages 152-157)
Injuries
- An evaluation of police reporting of road casualties. Author(s): Jeffrey S; Stone DH; Blamey A; Clark D; Cooper C; Dickson K; Mackenzie M; Major K. Reference: Injury Prevention, 2009 Feb; 15(1): 13-18 http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/15/1/13
Scottish Health Survey
- Cohort Profile: The Scottish Health Surveys Cohort: linkage of study participants to routinely collected records for mortality, hospital discharge, cancer and offspring birth characteristics in three nationwide studies. Author(s): Linsay Gray,1* G David Batty,1 Peter Craig,2,3 Catherine Stewart,1 Bruce Whyte,4 Alan Finlayson,5 and Alastair H Leyland1 Reference: Int J Epidemiol. 2010 April; 39(2): 345-350, Published online 2010 March 25. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyp155.
Record Linkage Methodology
- The Scottish Record Linkage System: S. Kendrick (1997)
- Community Health Index (CHI) Briefing Paper: C. Povey & A. Mackay (2010)
