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Validating surgical procedure codes for inflammatory bowel disease in the Swedish National Patient Register

BACKGROUND: About 50% of patients with Crohn’s disease (CD) and about 20% of those with ulcerative colitis (UC) undergo surgery at some point during the course of the disease. The diagnostic validity of the Swedish National Patient Register (NPR) has previously been shown to be high for inflammatory...

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Autores principales: Forss, Anders, Myrelid, Pär, Olén, Ola, Everhov, Åsa H., Nordenvall, Caroline, Halfvarson, Jonas, Ludvigsson, Jonas F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6849315/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31711471
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12911-019-0948-z