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Linkage Using Diagnosis Codes

Details

This package implements probabilistic record linkage methods that relies on the use of diagnosis codes only, in the absence of direct identifiers .

Package:ludic
Type:Package
Version:ludic 0.2.1
Date:2025-07-24
License:The "MIT License" (MIT)

The main function of ludic is recordLink.

References

Hejblum BP, Weber G, Liao KP, Palmer N, Churchill S, Szolovits P, Murphy S, Kohane I and Cai T, Probabilistic Record Linkage of De-Identified Research Datasets Using Diagnosis Codes, Scientific Data, 6:180298 (2019). doi:10.1038/sdata.2018.298 .

Zhang HG, Hejblum BP, Weber G, Palmer N, Churchill S, Szolovits P, Murphy S, Liao KP, Kohane I and Cai T, ATLAS: An automated association test using probabilistically linked health records with application to genetic studies, JAMIA, in press (2021). doi:10.1093/jamia/ocab187 .

Author

Boris P. Hejblum, Harrison G. Zhang, Tianxi Cai — Maintainer: Boris P. Hejblum