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Selection of Medical Diagnostic Codes for Analysis of Electronic Patient Records. Application to Stroke in a Primary Care Database

BACKGROUND: Electronic patient records from primary care databases are increasingly used in public health and health services research but methods used to identify cases with disease are not well described. This study aimed to evaluate the relevance of different codes for the identification of acute...

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Autores principales: Gulliford, Martin C., Charlton, Judith, Ashworth, Mark, Rudd, Anthony G., Toschke, Andre Michael
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2744876/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19777060
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0007168