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Coding of obesity in administrative hospital discharge abstract data: accuracy and impact for future research studies

BACKGROUND: Obesity is a pervasive problem and a popular subject of academic assessment. The ability to take advantage of existing data, such as administrative databases, to study obesity is appealing. The objective of our study was to assess the validity of obesity coding in an administrative datab...

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Autores principales: Martin, Billie-Jean, Chen, Guanmin, Graham, Michelle, Quan, Hude
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3996078/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24524687
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-14-70