scholarly journals Cancer incidence among people living with HIV in Zimbabwe: A record linkage study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tinei Shamu ◽  
Eliane Rohner ◽  
Eric Chokunonga ◽  
Adrian Spoerri ◽  
Ardele Mandiriri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Incidence ◽  
Record Linkage ◽  
Linkage Study ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Living With Hiv

Time trends in cancer incidence in Australian people living with HIV between 1982 and 2012

HIV Medicine ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian K. J. Wong ◽  
Andrew E. Grulich ◽  
Isobel Mary Poynten ◽  
Mark N. Polizzotto ◽  
Marina T. Leeuwen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Incidence ◽  
Time Trends ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Living With Hiv

scholarly journals Privacy preserving-probabilistic record linkage to assess cancer outcomes in people living with HIV in South Africa

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Bohlius ◽  
Lina Bartels ◽  
Frédérique Chammartin ◽  
Victor Olago ◽  
Adrian Spoerri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Record Linkage ◽  
Cancer Control ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Privacy Preserving ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Patient Privacy ◽  
Cancer Outcomes ◽  
Probabilistic Record Linkage ◽  
Living With Hiv

Background: Privacy-preserving probabilistic record linkage (PPPRL) methods were developed and applied in high-income countries to link records within and between organizations under strict privacy protections. PPPRL has not yet been used in African settings.Methods: We used HIV-related laboratory records from National Health Laboratory Services (NHLS) in South Africa to construct a cohort of HIV-positive patients and link them to the National Cancer Registry (NCR) with PPPRL. The study was restricted to Gauteng province from 2004 to 2014. We used records with national IDs (gold standard) to determine precision, recall, and f-measure of the linkages. We included all patients with ≥ 2 HIV-related lab records measured in the cohort and assessed the number of cancers diagnosed in people living with HIV (PLWH).Results: We included 11,480,118 HIV-related laboratory records and 664,869 cancer records in the linkage. We included 1,173,908 persons in the HIV cohort; 66.6% were female and median age at first HIV-related lab test was 33.9 years (IQR 27.4-41.3). Of the patients in the cohort, 26,348 were diagnosed with at least one cancer and 8,329 of these cancers were diagnosed before or on the date of the patient’s first HIV-related record; 18,019 were diagnosed after their first HIV-related record. For all linkages, precision, recall, and f-measures were high.Conclusion: Our study showed it is feasible to use PPPRL in an African setting to link routinely collected health records from different data sources and create a longitudinal HIV cohort with cancer outcomes while strictly protecting patient privacy. This work served as the foundation to create a nationwide population-based cohort including all South African provinces which will be used to inform cancer control programs.

scholarly journals Risk of colorectal cancer incidence and mortality after polypectomy: a Swedish record-linkage study

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 537-547 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mingyang Song ◽  
Louise Emilsson ◽  
Soran R Bozorg ◽  
Long H Nguyen ◽  
Amit D Joshi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Colorectal Cancer ◽  
Cancer Incidence ◽  
Record Linkage ◽  
Linkage Study ◽  
Incidence And Mortality ◽  
Colorectal Cancer Incidence

Hepatitis C coinfection and extrahepatic cancer incidence among people living with HIV

HIV Medicine ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah J. Willis ◽  
H. Nina Kim ◽  
Chad J. Achenbach ◽  
Edward R. Cachay ◽  
Katerina A. Christopoulos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hepatitis C ◽  
Cancer Incidence ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Living With Hiv
Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document