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
1408
0.025
0.512
EpiLink (Contiero)
0.35
1501
0.237
0.546
Fellegi-Sunter (baseline model)
1740
0.039
0.633
Fellegi-Sunter (Dattani estimates)
15
1665
0.031
0.606