Medical complications in patients with stroke: Data validity in a stroke registry and a hospital discharge registry

Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 5-13

  Ingeman, Annette ^a   Andersen, Grethe ^a   Hundborg, Heidi H ^a   Johnsen, Søren P ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Clinical database; Data validity; Medical complications; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CONSTIPATION; DATA ANALYSIS; DECUBITUS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DENMARK; DISEASE REGISTRY; FALLING; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTION; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VALIDITY;

EID: 77953452347     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11791349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2147/clep.s8908     Document Type: Review

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