Merging Children’s Oncology Group Data with an External Administrative Database Using Indirect Patient Identifiers: A Report from the Children’s Oncology Group

• Yimei Li ,

  * E-mail: liy3@email.chop.edu (LY)

  Affiliations Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Division of Oncology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Matt Hall,

  Affiliation Children’s Hospital Association, Overland Park, Kansas, United States of America

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• Brian T. Fisher,

  Affiliations Division of Infectious Disease, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Center for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Alix E. Seif,

  Affiliation Division of Oncology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Yuan-Shung Huang,

  Affiliation Center for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Rochelle Bagatell,

  Affiliation Division of Oncology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Kelly D. Getz,

  Affiliation Division of Oncology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Todd A. Alonzo,

  Affiliations Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Children’s Oncology Group, Monrovia, California, United States of America

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• Robert B. Gerbing,

  Affiliation Children’s Oncology Group, Monrovia, California, United States of America

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• Lillian Sung,

  Affiliation Department of Hematology/Oncology, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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• Peter C. Adamson,

  Affiliations Division of Oncology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Children’s Oncology Group, Monrovia, California, United States of America

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• Alan Gamis,

  Affiliations Children’s Oncology Group, Monrovia, California, United States of America, Division of Hematology/Oncology/Bone Marrow Transplantation, Children’s Mercy Hospital and Clinics, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

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• Richard Aplenc

  Affiliations Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Division of Oncology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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