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6507683

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
12
pubmed:dateCreated
1985-1-3
pubmed:abstractText
The California Automated Mortality Linkage System (CAMLIS), established in 1981 to facilitate the conduct of follow-up studies in the State of California, employs a combination of deterministic and probabilistic linkage decision criteria to perform the death clearance function. The system was evaluated against four traditional death clearance procedures and the performance of each procedure measured in terms of measures of sensitivity and specificity. Only one procedure was associated with a specificity lower than 0.99; for that one, the specificity was 0.93. There was much greater fluctuation in the observed sensitivity levels. In one of the procedures, CAMLIS demonstrated a sensitivity of 0.97 versus 0.79 for the Social Security Administration. A comparison against the National Death Index (NDI) produced sensitivities of 0.89 for CAMLIS and 0.94 for the NDI. An assessment of manual search procedures using a file of Japanese names produced a CAMLIS sensitivity measure of 0.92 compared with 0.93 for the manual search. Another manual search procedure using microfiche copies of the state death index produced a CAMLIS sensitivity of 0.97; in this evaluation, the sensitivity of the manual search was defined as 1.0. Another measure of performance of a death clearance procedure is its predictive value in identifying a person who has died; CAMLIS generated predictive values in these evaluations that ranged from 0.93 through 0.99, contrasted with the NDI value of 0.59.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0090-0036
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
74
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1324-30
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1984
pubmed:articleTitle
The California Automated Mortality Linkage System (CAMLIS).
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.