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. 2020 Mar 11;4(2):1138. doi: 10.23889/ijpds.v4i2.1138

Table 4: Summary of Data Linkage Branch linkage infrastructure 2017 to 2019.

Data Collection Frequency
1. Emergency Department Data Collection Weekly and Monthly
2. Hospital Morbidity Data Collection Monthly
3. Midwives Notifications System Monthly
4. WA Cancer Registry Monthly
5. Mental Health Information System Monthly; concluded
6. MIND Mental Health Monthly
7. Registrar General - Birth Registrations Monthly
8. Registrar General - Death Registrations Monthly
9. Registrar General - Marriage Registrations Monthly
10. Elective Surgery Waitlist Monthly
11. Non-Admitted Activity & Wait List Monthly
12. WA Electoral Roll Quarterly
13. Cause of Death Unit Record File Annual
14. Department of Transport Drivers’ Licences Annual
15. Main Roads WA Crashes Annual
16. Insurance Commission WA Annual
17. Trauma Registry Annual
18. Breastscreen WA Annual
19. Monitoring of Drugs of Dependence System Annual
20. WA Register of Developmental Anomalies - Birth Defects Annual
21. WA Register of Developmental Anomalies - Cerebral Palsy Annual
22. WA Notifiable Infectious Diseases Database Annual
23. Health and Wellbeing Surveillance System Annual
24. iPharmacy Annual
25. WA Cervical Cancer Prevention Program Annual
26. Australian Early Development Census 3-yearly
27. Australia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant Registry Project-specific; annual
28. Pathwest Project-specific; annual
29. Clinipath Project-specific; annual
30. Clinical Labs WA Project-specific; annual
31. St. John of God Pathology Project-specific; once-off
32. Perth Pathology Project-specific; once-off
33. Dental Health Services Project-specific; once-off
34. Oral Health Care WA Project-specific; once-off
35. iPharmacy (Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital) Once-off
36. ASCribe Once-off
37. Home & Community Care Once-off
38. Aged Care Assessment Program Once-off
39. Intellectual Disability Exploring Answers Database Upon request
40. St John Ambulance Upon request
41. Silver Chain WA Upon request
42. Royal Flying Doctors Service Inaugural linkage only; ongoing status TBD
43. Child Development Information System Inaugural linkage only; ongoing status TBD
44. Brightwater Care Group Inaugural linkage only; ongoing status TBD