title: The dGrail toolkit for iterative deterministic record linkage.
abstract: The distributed Graph rule automata for iterative linkage (dGrail) toolkit is a software package for deterministic record linkage. This toolkit allows for iterative development of linked record sets. While intended for the generation of gold standard record sets, the toolkit is applicable to any offline deterministic record linkage task. The dGrail toolkit embodies a flexible rule engine allowing the user to implement a wide variety of record matching rules, including those found in the literature.
authors.affiliation: Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN, USA.
authors.forename: Jeremy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ey
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Walker
authors.forename: Douglas A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Talbert
mesh_terms: D008498:Medical Record Linkage / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D012984:Software