TY - JOUR AU - Randall, Sean M. AU - Ferrante, Anna M. AU - Boyd, James H. AU - Semmens, James B. PY - 2013 DA - 2013/06/05 TI - The effect of data cleaning on record linkage quality JO - BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making SP - 64 VL - 13 IS - 1 AB - Within the field of record linkage, numerous data cleaning and standardisation techniques are employed to ensure the highest quality of links. While these facilities are common in record linkage software packages and are regularly deployed across record linkage units, little work has been published demonstrating the impact of data cleaning on linkage quality. SN - 1472-6947 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6947-13-64 DO - 10.1186/1472-6947-13-64 ID - Randall2013 ER -