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Design of cohort studies in chronic diseases using routinely collected databases when a prescription is used as surrogate outcome

BACKGROUND: There has been little research on design of studies based on routinely collected data when the clinical endpoint of interest is not recorded, but can be inferred from a prescription. This often happens when exploring the effect of a drug on chronic diseases. Using the LifeLink claims dat...

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Autores principales: Lodi, Sara, Carpenter, James, Egger, Peter, Evans, Stephen
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3079701/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21457565
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-11-36