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Accuracy of death certification and hospital record linkage for identification of incident stroke

BACKGROUND: There is little information on the validity of using record linkage with routinely collected data for case ascertainment of stroke in large population-based studies in the UK. We examined the accuracy of these routine record linkage approaches for identifying incident stroke cases in a l...

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Autores principales: Sinha, Shubhada, Myint, Phyo K, Luben, Robert N, Khaw, Kay-Tee
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2605452/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19000303
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-8-74