title: Can linking databases answer questions about paediatric heart failure?
abstract: Numerous data sets collect information on patients with paediatric cardiovascular disease, including paediatric heart failure and transplant patients. This review discusses methodologies available for linking and integrating information across data sets, which may help facilitate answering important questions in the field of paediatric heart failure and transplant that cannot be answered with individual data sets or single-centre data alone.
authors.affiliation: 1Department of Pediatrics,University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital,Ann Arbor,Michigan,United States of America.
authors.forename: Sara K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Pasquali
authors.affiliation: 1Department of Pediatrics,University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital,Ann Arbor,Michigan,United States of America.
authors.forename: Kurt R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Schumacher
authors.affiliation: 2Nemours Cardiac Center,Nemours/A.I. duPont Hospital for Children,Wilmington,Delaware,United States of America.
authors.forename: Ryan R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Davies
mesh_terms: D016208:Databases, Factual / Q000145:classification / Q000592:standards*; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000628:therapy*; D016027:Heart Transplantation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010372:Pediatrics; D012042:Registries / Q000145:classification / Q000592:standards*
keywords: Database; heart failure