Review of the performance of methods to identify diabetes cases among vital statistics, administrative, and survey data

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 507-516

  Saydah, Sharon H ^a,b   Geiss, Linda S ^a   Tierney, Ed ^a   Benjamin, Stephanie M ^a   Engelgau, Michael ^a   Brancati, Frederick ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Administrative Data; Diabetes; Positive Predictive Value; Sensitivity; Specificity; Surveillance; Survey; Validity

Indexed keywords

CAUSE OF DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMAN; LITERATURE; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; MONITORING; PERFORMANCE; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VITAL STATISTICS;

EID: 4043079934     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2003.09.016     Document Type: Article

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