Table 2 Patient geocode and enumeration area attribute associations in patient medical records
Attribute association description | Core attributes from chronic disease record | Questions relevant to probability of error in attribute association | Association |
|---|---|---|---|
Patient: geocode | Patient identifying fields, date of diagnosis, address, postal code, postal locality and geocode | What is the probability that the wrong set of coordinates (and by extension, residence) was chosen during geocoding for the patient? | 4 |
Patient: enumeration area (EA) feature | Patient identifying fields, date of diagnosis, address, postal code, postal locality, geocode, county, sub county enumeration area | What is the probability that the wrong enumeration area was assigned to the patient? | 5 |