How well does routine hospitalisation data capture information on comorbidity in New Zealand?

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 123, Issue 1310, 2010, Pages 50-61

  Sarfati, Diana ^a   Hill, Sarah ^a   Purdie, Gordon ^a   Dennett, Elizabeth ^b   Blakely, Tony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON CANCER; COMORBIDITY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KAPPA STATISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MCNEMAR TEST; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEW ZEALAND; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DATA COLLECTION; HOSPITAL RECORDS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MEDICAL RECORDS; NEW ZEALAND; QUALITY CONTROL; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 77749260557     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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