Population
Population of Western Australia with hospital admissions and re-admissions over 16 years from 1980
Follow-up
16 years of records (from 1980)
Authors
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Enables regional surgical benchmarking in Western Australia; leaves open scalability of linked databases elsewhere.
The Quality of Surgical Care Project demonstrates a successful model for using population-based record linkage to evaluate surgical outcomes and establish benchmarks for quality improvement.
Semmens et al. (1998) studied this question.
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