Table 2.
Number (Column, Percentage) | Source Data Set | All Data Sets | |||
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NHS 111 Telephone Helpline | Ambulance Service | Emergency Department | Inpatient Admissions | ||
Records not deterministically linked/clustered | 248 | 3,024,366 | 3617 | 12,901 | 3,041,132 |
Probabilistic link to record(s) with (or deterministically linked to) NHS number | 4 (1.6%) | 886,089 (29.3%) | 851 (23.5%) | 36 (0.3%) | 886,980 (29.2%) |
Probabilistic link deterministically clustered records | 0 (0.0%) | 6289 (0.2%) | 0 (0.0%) | 0 (0.0%) | 6289 (0.2%) |
No linkage | 244 (98.4%) | 2,131,988 (70.5%) | 2766 (76.5%) | 12,865 (99.7%) | 2,147,863 (70.6%) |