Validity of diagnoses of major coronary events in national registers of hospital diagnoses and deaths in Finland

European Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 133-138

  Rapola, Janne Martti ^a   Virtamo, Jarmo ^a   Korhonen, Pasi ^a   Haapakoski, Jaason ^a   Hartman, Anne Marcia ^b   Edwards, Brenda Kay ^b   Heinonen, Olli Pertti ^c  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Coronary heart disease; Diagnoses; Hospital discharge register; Myocardial infarction; Register of causes of death; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; FINLAND; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; REGISTER;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CORONARY DISEASE; FINLAND; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REGISTRIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAMPLING STUDIES;

EID: 0031053640     PISSN: 03932990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007380408729     Document Type: Article

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