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Consolidated guidance on tuberculosis data generation and use: module 1: tuberculosis surveillance: web annex C: record-linkage exercises

Consolidated guidance on tuberculosis data generation and use: module 1: tuberculosis surveillance: web annex C: record-linkage exercises
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This guide explains how to implement record linkage within the context of country programmes that are adopting digital case-based surveillance systems for tuberculosis (TB). It explains the importance of record linkage in finding missed TB cases and linking these to TB surveillance systems and, where possible, to TB care. There are three annexes: 

  • a description of how to use the Link Plus application to conduct probabilistic record linkage (Annex 1) and of how Link Plus can be used to deduplicate records (Annex 2); and
  • further exercises to support readers intending to practise using Link Plus, and three comma separated variable (CSV) format files available from links provided (Annex 3).