Socioeconomic misclassification in Ontario's health care registry

Canadian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 140-143

  Glazier, Richard H ^a,b   Creatore, Maria I ^a   Agha, Mohammad M ^a   Steele, Leah S ^a,b   Hwang, Stephen ^a   Rhodes, Anne ^a   Badgley, Robin ^c   Clark, Jocalyn ^c   Cohen, Marsha M ^c   Badley, Elizabeth M ^b   Gozdyra, Peter ^b   Patychuk, Dianne ^d   Purdon, Lorraine ^e  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d TORONTO PUBLIC HEALTH   (Canada)

^e Southeast Toronto Project   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANADA; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; POPULATION RESEARCH; REGISTER; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL CLASS; STANDARD; URBAN POPULATION;

HUMANS; INCOME; ONTARIO; REGISTRIES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL CLASS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0037365985     PISSN: 00084263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03404588     Document Type: Article

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