A validation study: How effective is the Hospital Morbidity Data as a surveillance tool for heart failure in Western Australia?

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 405-407

  Teng, Tiew Hwa Katherine ^a   Finn, Judith ^a   Hung, Joseph ^b   Geelhoed, Elizabeth ^a   Hobbs, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Discharge diagnosis; Epidemiology; Heart failure; Hospitalisation; Validation studies

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CODING; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PREDICTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; TREND STUDY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FORMS AND RECORDS CONTROL; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MORBIDITY; PATIENT ADMISSION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SAMPLING STUDIES; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 55049129845     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2008.00269.x     Document Type: Article

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