Validity of diagnoses of cardiac malformations in a Danish population-based hospital-discharge registry

International Journal of Risk and Safety in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 77-81

  Jepsen, Britta ^a   Jepsen, Peter ^a,c   Johnsen, Søren Paaske ^a   Espersen, Geert Tschentscher ^b   Sørensen, Henrik Toft ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c Department of Clinical Epidemiology ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cardiology; Congenital abnormality; Epidemiology; Registries; Validity

Indexed keywords

AORTA COARCTATION; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTERIAL TRUNK; ARTICLE; BIRTH DEFECT; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DENMARK; EBSTEIN ANOMALY; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART SINGLE VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; LUNG VEIN DRAINAGE ANOMALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLE SIZE; TRICUSPID VALVE ATRESIA; VALIDITY;

EID: 33745432994     PISSN: 09246479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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