Rumeau-Rouquette C
Unité 149 de l'INSERM, Paris.
Rev Epidemiol Sante Publique. 1997 Jun;45(3):248-56.
This paper gives an overview of linking methods of personal data computed in different files as registers and administrative or medical records. Epidemiological and demographic examples are studied, then the successive steps of record linkage are described:definition and choice of identifiants, searching and comparing pairs of records to determine whether they should be linked. A special mention is made to probability matching and methods optimizing the matching procedures. The discussion envisages the advantages of record linkage:better use of health statistics, new types of epidemiologic studies. The ethical problems and the need for evaluation are also discussed.
本文概述了在不同文件（如登记簿、行政记录或医疗记录）中计算的个人数据的链接方法。研究了流行病学和人口统计学方面的示例，然后描述了记录链接的连续步骤：标识符的定义和选择、搜索和比较记录对以确定它们是否应链接。特别提到了概率匹配和优化匹配程序的方法。讨论设想了记录链接的优点：更好地利用健康统计数据、开展新型流行病学研究。还讨论了伦理问题和评估的必要性。
