Administrative database: Validity of recording vs. validity of diagnosis [2] (multiple letters)

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 104-105

  Lacasse, Yves ^a   Montori, Victor M ^b   Maltais, François ^a   Bourbeau, Jean ^c   Menzies, Dick ^c  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ASTHMA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LETTER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 29144463415     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2005.09.001     Document Type: Letter

References (2)

1. J. McKnight A. Scott D. Menzies J. Bourbeau L. Blais C. Lemiere A cohort study showed that health insurance databases were accurate to distinguish chronic obstructive pulmonary disease from asthma and classify disease severity J Clin Epidemiol 58 2005 206 208
2. Y. Lacasse V.M. Montori C. Lanthier F. Maltais Diagnosis of “chronic obstructive pulmonary disease” from a large administrative database Can Respir J 12 5 2005 251 255