record linkage

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rec·ord link·age

a method of assembling the information contained in two or more sets of medical records, or a set of medical records and vital records such as birth or death certificates, and a procedure to ensure that each person's records are counted only once; facilitated by a unique numbering system such as the Hogben number to identify people with precision.
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Frameworks for researching data quality have been introduced (Madnick 2009, Wang 1995) as well as specific mathematical models for addressing the record linkage problem (Fellegi and Sunter 1969).
Exceptional data quality using intelligent matching and retrieval

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