Journal article
Linking Data From the Australian Stroke Clinical Registry With Ambulance and Emergency Administrative Data in Victoria
AL Eliakundu, K Smith, MF Kilkenny, J Kim, KL Bagot, E Andrew, S Cox, CF Bladin, DA Cadilhac
Inquiry United States | Published : 2022
Abstract
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 clinical journey of people with stroke and the possibility of investigating their long-term outcomes based on pre-hospital management of stroke. Method: Patient-level data from the Australian Stroke Clinical Registry (AuSCR) (January 2013-October 2017) were linked with Ambulance Victoria (AV) records and Victorian Emergency Minimum Dataset (VEMD). Probabilistic iterative matching on personal ident..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This project was funded by a Stroke Foundation Seed Grant for Research (APPSeed1808).The following authors receive Research Fellowship support from the NHMRC: MFK (1109426); DAC (11542730). EA receives an NHMRC Post-Graduate Scholarship (2003449). ALE receives a Departmental Scholarship from Monash University. Other: The AuSCR was supported by grants from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC: 1034415), Monash University, Queensland Health, Victorian Department of Health and Human Services, the Stroke Foundation, Allergan Australia, Ipsen, Boehringer Ingelheim, and consumer donations.