Hospital epidemiology can hospital discharge diagnosis be used for surveillance of bacteremia? A data quality study of a Danish hospital discharge registry

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 175-180

  Madsen, Kreesten Meldgaard ^a,b,d   Schønheyder, Henrik Carl ^b   Kristensen, Brian ^b   Nielsen, Gunnar Lauge ^a   Sørensen, Henrik Toft ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AARHUS   (Denmark)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d NONE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; CLASSIFICATION; DENMARK; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD;

BACTEREMIA; DENMARK; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032018339     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0195941700087117     Document Type: Article

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