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How many people have had a myocardial infarction? Prevalence estimated using historical hospital data

BACKGROUND: Health administrative data are increasingly used to examine disease occurrence. However, health administrative data are typically available for a limited number of years – posing challenges for estimating disease prevalence and incidence. The objective of this study is to estimate the pr...

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Autores principales: Manuel, Douglas G, Lim, Jenny JY, Tanuseputro, Peter, Stukel, Therésè A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1994682/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17650341
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-7-174