title: Using ICD codes and birth records to prevent mis-matches of multiple births in linked hospital readmission data.
abstract: Multiple births present a challenge for accurately identifying newborn readmissions when using probabilistic linkage methods and the given name is missing. We discovered that using ICD newborn codes and linking to birth certificates to identify multiple births in hospital discharge data improves the linking accuracy for newborn readmissions by 28.9%.
authors.affiliation: University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
authors.forename: Alison
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fraser
authors.forename: Zhiwei
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Emily
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Geraldine
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Mineau
authors.forename: Wu
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Xu
mesh_terms: D001719:Birth Certificates; D006801:Humans; D038801:International Classification of Diseases / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D009099:Multiple Birth Offspring / Q000145:classification*; D010355:Patient Identification Systems / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010359:Patient Readmission / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014589:Utah