Creating a Population-based Linked Health Database: A New Resource for Health Services Research

Abstract

1985 excludes January-September for this file type, due to insufficient identifying information on the LCF.

Noise exposure and serious injury to active sawmill workers in British Columbia

“…There were 6512 cohort members who met this definition, and these were linked to their hospital discharge record using probabilistic linkage through the British Columbia Linked Health Database. The British Columbia Linked Health Database integrates health-service records, population health data and census statistics, making it possible to link administrative records anonymously at an individual level 18. From these 6512 cohort members, 5876 (90.2%) of the workers were successfully linked to the BCLHDB,16 resulting in 40 806 hospital discharge records.…”

Population-based asbestosis surveillance in British Columbia

“…The detailed methods for the construction and use of the British Columbia Linked Health Database (BCLHD) as a research data resource have been described elsewhere 20 21. Briefly, the BCLHD is a large health data resource that contains multiple electronic administrative health data sources including provincial health insurance registration records, workers’ compensation records, hospital separation records and outpatient medical service records.…”

“…Briefly, the BCLHD is a large health data resource that contains multiple electronic administrative health data sources including provincial health insurance registration records, workers’ compensation records, hospital separation records and outpatient medical service records. All these data sources can be linked using anonymous individual-specific study identifiers 20 21. These data sources contain the International Classification of Disease (ICD) diagnosis codes.…”

Hypertension in noise-exposed sawmill workers: a cohort study

“…It includes data on hospital discharges and physician (outpatient) visits. It has excellent coverage, because of British Columbia’s publicly funded provincial healthcare system, allowing near complete follow-up post-employment 12. Our analyses were restricted to males as the number of females was small (n = 151) and they were not represented in the highly exposed categories.…”