Using administrative data to understand the geography of case ascertainment

Chronic Diseases in Canada

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 20-28

  Yiannakoulias, Nikolaos ^a   Schopflocher, D P ^b   Svenson, L W ^c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c Public Health Surveillance and Environmental Health   (Canada)

Author keywords

Administrative health data; Asthma; Public health surveillance; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CANADA; CASE FINDING; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PREVALENCE;

ALBERTA; ALGORITHMS; ASTHMA; CHILD; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; INSURANCE CLAIM REVIEW; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PATIENT ADMISSION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK; SMALL-AREA ANALYSIS;

EID: 71949124330     PISSN: 02288699     EISSN: 14818523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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