Assessing the impact of specialist home visiting upon maltreatment in England: a feasibility study of data linkage from a public health trial to routine health and social care data

Table 4 Data received from NHS Digital

Dataset name	N participants in dataset	N mothers in dataset	N children in dataset	N match steps 1 and 2 (% based on N participants in dataset)	N records in dataset (multiple records per participant)
A&E	2451	1205	1246	2446 (99.8%)	13,211
Outpatients	2338	1398	940	2336 (99.9%)	39,067
Inpatients	2789	1403^a	1386^b	2786 (99.9%)	11,882

^a31 missing, 27 unmatched and 4 of these present in A&E dataset
^b33 missing, 22 unmatched and 11 of these present in A&E and Outpatients datasets

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