Validation of stroke diagnosis in the National Hospital Discharge Register and the Register of Causes of Death in Finland

European Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 155-160

  Leppälä, Jaana M ^a   Virtamo, Jarmo ^b   Heinonen, Olli P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Hospital discharge register; Register of causes of death; Stroke; Validation

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; BETA CAROTENE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CANCER PREVENTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; STROKE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; BETA CAROTENE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CLASSIFICATION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FINLAND; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PLACEBOS; REGISTRIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SMOKING; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; VITAMIN E;

EID: 18544403497     PISSN: 03932990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007504310431     Document Type: Article

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