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Can health care databases be used to identify incident cases of osteonecrosis?

INTRODUCTION: Osteonecrosis (ON) is a rare disease associated with alcohol and glucocorticoid use. Identifying additional risk factors is difficult as the number of cases at any single center is small. We investigated whether data available in large health care databases can be used to identify inci...

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Autores principales: Vlad, Steven C, Felson, David T, Miller, Donald R
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2714145/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19534782
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/ar2731