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. 2019 Sep 23;10:984. doi: 10.3389/fphar.2019.00984

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Copyright © 2019 Ali, Ichihara, Lopes, Barbosa, Pita, Carreiro, dos Santos, Ramos, Bispo, Raynal, Canuto, de Araujo Almeida, Fiaccone, Barreto, Smeeth and Barreto

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Common flowchart of a data linkage tool: Raw data are pre-processed (1) and split into smaller blocks (2). Pairwise comparison is performed among records within similar blocks using functions that produce a similarity measure for each attribute. A weighted vector is then used to average each individual similarity measure into a single score S (3). Manual review the dataset generated after the pairwise comparison is optionally performed (4). Data source A (DS_A), data source B (DS_B), number of blocks (n), attributes (attr), weights (w), score (S), and linked data DS_AxB.