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Table 4 Persons who died in 2008–09: median hospitalisations by years prior to death and linkage strategy

From: Optimal strategy for linkage of datasets containing a statistical linkage key and datasets with full personal identifiers

Years

Full probabilistic model

SLK-581 strategy

Basic

Most recent

Most frequent

Any match

Median

(25,75 quartiles)

Median

(25,75 quartiles)

Median

(25,75 quartiles)

Median

(25,75 quartiles)

Median

(25,75 quartiles)

2008/09

1

(1–3)

1

(0–2)

1

(0–3)

1

(0–3)

1

(0–3)

2007/08 to 2008/09

3

(1–5)

2

(1–4)

2

(1–5)

2

(1–5)

2

(1–5)

2006/07 to 2008/09

3

(1–7)

3

(1–5)

3

(1–6)

3

(1–6)

3

(1–6)

2005/06 to 2008/09

4

(2–8)

3

(1–6)

4

(1–7)

4

(1–7)

4

(1–8)

2004/05 to 2008/09

5

(2–9)

3

(1–7)

4

(2–8)

4

(2–8)

5

(2–9)

2003/04 to 2008/09

6

(3–10)

4

(2–7)

5

(2–9)

5

(2–9)

5

(2–9)

2002/03 to 2008/09

6

(3–11)

4

(2–8)

6

(2–10)

6

(2–10)

6

(2–10)

2001/02 to 2008/09

7

(3–11)

4

(2–8)

6

(3–11)

6

(3–11)

6

(3–11)

2000/01 to 2008/09

7

(4–12)

5

(2–9)

6

(3–12)

6

(3–12)

7

(3–12)

  1. SLK: Statistical Linkage Key.