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Linked versus unlinked hospital discharge data on hip fractures for estimating incidence and comorbidity profiles

BACKGROUND: Studies comparing internally linked (person–identifying) and unlinked (episodes of care) hospital discharge data (HDD) on hip fractures have mainly focused on incidence overestimation by unlinked HDD, but little is known about the impact of overestimation on patient profiles such as como...

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Autores principales: Vu, Trang, Day, Lesley, Finch, Caroline F
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3464601/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22853324
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-12-113