Sean M. Randall

TL;DR: The privacy preserving linkage method was tested on ten years of New South Wales and Western Australian hospital admissions data, comprising in total over 26 million records, and no difference in linkage quality was found when the results were compared to traditional probabilistic methods using full unencrypted personal identifiers.

TL;DR: Healthcare administrative data sets can inform public debate about injuries resulting from legal police intervention and excess per capita death rates among blacks and youth at police hands are reflections of excess exposure.

TL;DR: Burn injury sustained by children is associated with an increased risk of long-term all-cause mortality and estimates of the total mortality burden based on in-hospital deaths alone underestimates the true burden from burn injury.

TL;DR: Findings of increased hospital admission rates, prolonged length of hospital stay and increased long-term mortality related to circulatory system diseases in the burn cohort provide evidence to support that burn has long-lasting systemic impacts on the heart and circulation.

TL;DR: The development of the processes and methodology required to create cross-jurisdictional research infrastructure and enable aggregation of State and Territory linkages into a single linkage “map” is described.