Health Data Linkage Committee

CHeReL services available to the University of New South Wales

The Centre for Health Record Linkage (CHeReL), hosted by the Cancer Institute NSW, is a collaborative venture originally funded by eight member organisations, including the University of NSW. As a member organisation, UNSW received discounts for CHeReL services; in 2009 these discounts are available to all UNSW researcher. After 31st December 2009 the UNSW will renegotiate its membership with the CHeReL and the new membership terms will be posted on this website.

Guide to Health Record Linkage Services

For more detailed information regarding CHeReL and information relating to its use, please refer to the CHeReL website for their latest version of the Guide to CHeReL services (PDF).

For information about the linked datasets available and the types of linkage services offered by CHeReL please refer to the CHeReL website.

Centre for Health Record Linkage

Previous Funding Agreements

In the first funding agreement, UNSW received a proportion of its membership in 'free services'. These CHeReL services were made available to UNSW researchers to the total value of $80,000 in 2007/08 and $100,000 in 2008/09. The following UNSW Health Data Linkage applications were successful in these funding rounds:

Round 1 – 11 April 2008

• Evaluation of stroke outcomes in a large, Australian population: an analysis of linked hospital and mortality data
  M Gattellari, B Jalaludin, J Worthington and M Mohsin

• Morbidity in people with hepatitis B and C in New South Wales
  HF Gidding, MG Law, GJ Dore, J Amin and K Ward

• Australian HIV Observational Database (AHOD) Hospitalisation Linkage Project Protocol
  MG Law, KA Falster, J Anderson, K Watson and S Mallal

• The incidence of cancer and use of chemotherapeutic and biologic agents in Australian veterans
  SA Pearson and R Ward

Round 2 - 23 October 2008

• Mental Illness and Substance Use: impact on birth and neonatal outcomes
  E Sullivan, L Burns, M-P Austin, L Hilder, X Fenglian

Round 3 - 5 February 2009

• Mailed feedback for at-risk drinkers presenting to emergency departments (EDs) in rural NSW
  AE Harvard, AP Shakeshaft, KM Conigrave

• Relationship between 'best practice' primary care, health status, hospitalisation, and death for general practice patients with diabetes
  EJ Comino, MF Harris, N Zwar

• People with Mental Health Disorders (MHD) and Cognitive Disabilities (CD) in the Criminal Justice System (CJS)
  E Baldry, L Dowse, I Webster

• An injury profile for rear seat vehicle occupants using linked health and crash data
  J Brown, LE Bilston, J Hatfield
  

Round 4 - 27 July 2009

• Establishing the factors that contribute to a shortfall in evidence-based radiotherapy.
  GS Gabriel, G Delaney, M Barton

• Patterns of hospital use amongst individuals with drug and alcohol related problems
  L Burns, A Roxburgh

• Benefits and morbidity: carotid endarterectomy and carotid stenting compared
  M Gattellari, J Worthington, B Jalaludin

• The childhood outcomes of infants admitted to neonatal intensive care units in New South Wales between 1998 and 2006
  J Oei, ME Abdel-Latif, B Bajuk, K Lui, L Hilder, E Sullivan, A Welsh, T Vincent
  

UNSW Health Data Linkage Committee Members

Chair – Professor Denis Wakefield

UNSW CHeReL Management Committee Representative – Dr Claire Vajdic