Care home resident identification: A comparison of address matching methods with Natural Language Processing

Víctor Suárez-Paniagua; Arlene Casey; Charis A. Marwick; Jennifer K. Burton; Helen Callaby; Isobel Guthrie; Bruce Guthrie; Beatrice Alex

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0309341

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Care home resident identification: A comparison of address matching methods with Natural Language Processing

Víctor Suárez-Paniagua ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: vsuarez@ed.ac.uk

Affiliations Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, Advanced Care Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Health Data Research UK, HDR UK, London, United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6036-5322

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Arlene Casey,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, Advanced Care Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Charis A. Marwick,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Population Health & Genomics Division, School of Medicine, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
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Jennifer K. Burton,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Health, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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Helen Callaby,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation NHS Grampian, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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Isobel Guthrie,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation University of St Andrews School of Biology, Biomedical Sciences Research Complex, St Andrews, United Kingdom
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Bruce Guthrie,

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, Advanced Care Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Beatrice Alex

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, Advanced Care Research Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC), University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Care home resident identification: A comparison of address matching methods with Natural Language Processing

Víctor Suárez-Paniagua,
Arlene Casey,
Charis A. Marwick,
Jennifer K. Burton,
Helen Callaby,
Isobel Guthrie,
Bruce Guthrie,
Beatrice Alex

Published: December 5, 2024
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0309341

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