Agreement between administrative databases and medical charts for pregnancy-related variables among asthmatic women

Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 345-353

  Vilain, Anne ^a   Otis, Sophie ^a   Forget, Amélie ^b   Blais, Lucie ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b HÔPITAL DU SACRÉ COEUR DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c Endowment Pharmaceutical Chair Astra Zeneca in Respiratory Health   (Canada)

Author keywords

Administrative databases; Asthma; Medical chart; Pregnancy related variables; Validation

Indexed keywords

BETA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; LEUKOTRIENE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; THEOPHYLLINE; ANTIASTHMATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BIRTH WEIGHT; CANADA; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; HUMAN; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; MEDICAL RECORD; MENSTRUATION; PATIENT INFORMATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDITY; ADOLESCENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANTI-ASTHMATIC AGENTS; ASTHMA; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; QUEBEC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 42149105101     PISSN: 10538569     EISSN: 10991557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pds.1558     Document Type: Article

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