Registries and Administrative Data

Epidemiology of varicella zoster virus infection in Canada and the United Kingdom

“…The province is generally representative of Canada in indicators of health status, socio-economic status and provincial expenditures on health care [19,20]. The methodology for abstracting health claims data in Manitoba has previously been validated and documented [21]. The physician claims files include an encrypted personal health identification number (PHIN), date of service, physician specialty, clinical setting and a single 3-digit International Classification of Disease code (ICD-9) indicating the reason for the claim.…”

Influence of lack of full-time employment on attempted suicide in Manitoba, Canada

“…Stepwise multiple logistic regression was used to determine the effects of age (15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28)(29)(30)(31)(32)(33)(34)(35)(36)(37)(38)(39)(40)(41)(42)(43)(44), and 45-64 years), gender, educational status (less than grade 10, grade 10-12, some postsecondary schooling), area of residence (Winnipeg, non-Winnipeg urban, and rural), marital status (married and common law versus all other), ethnicity (aboriginal versus nonaboriginal), living with a fulltime employed person (yes, no), living in the same dwelling for the previous 5 years (yes, no), household income (continuous variable), previous mental health care (yes, no), suicide attempts from 1 April 1983 to 5 June 1986 (yes, no), and employment status on the likelihood of an individual attempting suicide following the census. The employment variables were divided into the following four mutually exclusive categories: full-time employed, part-time employed, unemployed, and not in the labor force.…”

“…All computerized records of health care encounters contain unique personal identifiers that permit the creation of longitudinal individual histories of health care utilization (21). All but a small minority of physicians provide services on a fee-for-service basis.…”

Mental and Physical Health Outcomes in Parents of Children with Burn Injuries as Compared with Matched Controls

“…The validity and accuracy of these datasets was excellent and had been validated in previous studies [31]. The linkage of these databases was shown to have very high accuracy [32][33][34][35]. For example, the true error rate of an original linkage of deaths reported by Vital Statistics was less than 1% [32].…”