Accuracy and completeness of patient pathways – the benefits of national data linkage in Australia

Table 3 Linkage quality

Jurisdictional Data	NSW			WA
	Morbidity	Public	Private	Morbidity
Accuracy of national linkage:
Precision	0.988	0.994	0.983	0.999
Recall	0.963	0.996	0.917	0.981
F-measure^a	0.976	0.995	0.949	0.990

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