Linkage Using Diagnosis Codes

Probabilistic record linkage without direct identifiers using only diagnosis codes. Method is detailed in: Hejblum, Weber, Liao, Palmer, Churchill, Szolovits, Murphy, Kohane & Cai (2019) ; Zhang, Hejblum, Weber, Palmer, Churchill, Szolovits, Murphy, Liao, Kohane & Cai (2021) .

Overview

ludic is a package which performs probabilistic record linkage methods that relies on the use of diagnosis codes only, in the absence of direct identifiers. On top of the CRAN help files, the following article explains what ludic is about:

Installation

The easiest way to get ludic is to install it from CRAN:

install.packages("ludic")

or alternatively you can get the development version from GitHub:

devtools::install_github("borishejblum/ludic")

-- Boris Hejblum