From: Investigating increased admissions to neonatal intensive care in England between 1995 and 2006: data linkage study using Hospital Episode Statistics
Linkage algorithm
Cutoff
True matches
PPV
Sensitivity
EM
10.00
238
0.005
0.356
EpiLink (Contiero)
0.35
387
0.009
0.579
FS (baseline model)
15.00
402
0.192
0.602
FS (Dattani estimates)
35.00
244
0.008
0.365