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Detecting chronic kidney disease in population-based administrative databases using an algorithm of hospital encounter and physician claim codes
BACKGROUND: Large, population-based administrative healthcare databases can be used to identify patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) when serum creatinine laboratory results are unavailable. We examined the validity of algorithms that used combined hospital encounter and physician claims datab...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3637099/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23560464 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2369-14-81 |