In a series of methodological papers, we have described the Rochester Epidemiology Project (REP) medical records-linkage system as it has existed for more than 50 years in Olmsted County, Minnesota.^1–4 Further details about the major events and protagonists of the history of the original REP are available elsewhere.¹ Starting in 2010, we have expanded the population captured by the REP from a single county in south-eastern Minnesota to a geographical region including 27 counties in southern Minnesota and western Wisconsin. In this paper, we provide a profile of the expanded medical records-linkage system, which we name the Expanded-REP (E-REP) to distinguish it from the original REP. Because the data became available for electronic linkage and storage starting in 2010, we can consider 2010 the birth year for the E-REP.

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数据资源简介：罗切斯特流行病学项目病历链接系统 (E-REP) 的扩展

在一系列方法论论文中，我们描述了罗切斯特流行病学项目 (REP) 医疗记录链接系统，该系统已在明尼苏达州奥姆斯特德县存在 50 多年。^1-4有关原始 REP 历史中的主要事件和主角的更多详细信息，请参阅其他地方。¹从 2010 年开始，我们将 REP 捕获的人口从明尼苏达州东南部的一个县扩大到包括明尼苏达州南部和威斯康星州西部 27 个县的地理区域。在本文中，我们提供了扩展医疗记录链接系统的概况，我们将其命名为 Expanded-REP (E-REP) 以区别于原始 REP。由于数据从2010年开始可用于电子链接和存储，因此我们可以将2010年视为E-REP的诞生年。