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Record linked retrospective cohort study of 4.6 million people exploring ethnic variations in disease: myocardial infarction in South Asians

BACKGROUND: Law and policy in several countries require health services to demonstrate that they are promoting racial/ethnic equality. However, suitable and accurate data are usually not available. We demonstrated, using acute myocardial infarction, that linkage techniques can be ethical and potenti...

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Autores principales: Fischbacher, CM, Bhopal, R, Povey, C, Steiner, M, Chalmers, J, Mueller, G, Jamieson, J, Knowles, D
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1965474/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17615055
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-7-142