Which are the best identifiers for record linkage?
Which are the best identifiers for record linkage? is a scholarly work by Catherine Quantin, published in 2004 in ''Informatics for Health and Social Care''. The main subjects of the publication include data quality, identifier, data mining, Linkage, health information technology, record linkage, unique identifier, computer science, and information retrieval. The work showed the interest of three identifiers when linking data concerning a same patient using an automatic procedure based on the method proposed by Jaro; the date of birth, the first and the last names seemed to be the more appropriate identifiers.