Augmenting maternal clinical cohort data with administrative laboratory dataset linkages: a validation study
The high success rate indicates the reliability of using barcodes for linking data without demographic identifiers. Specimen barcodes are an effective deterministic linkage tool that enable creation of large linked datasets without compromising confidentiality.
Authors
- Mhairi Maskew (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4238-0200)
- Kate Clouse (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0190-7398)
- Cornelius Nattey (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8272-9529)
- Nkosinathi Ngcobo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2290-7514)
- Karl‐Günter Technau (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7367-7512)
- Laura Rossouw
Institutions
- University of the Witwatersrand (ZA)
- Vanderbilt University (US)
- Institute of Child and Mother Health (BD)
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Discover Health Systems
- Published
- 2025-09-15
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s44250-025-00298-4
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.20
Funders
- National Institutes of Health