Under-ascertainment of Aboriginality in records of cardiovascular disease in hospital morbidity and mortality data in Western Australia: A record linkage study

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Briffa, Tom G ^a   Sanfilippo, Frank M ^a   Hobbs, Michael S T ^a   Ridout, Stephen C ^a   Katzenellenbogen, Judy M ^a,b,c   Thompson, Peter L ^d   Thompson, Sandra C ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; REGISTER; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; MIDDLE AGED; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PATIENT ADMISSION; REGISTRIES; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; URBAN POPULATION; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 78650586437     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-10-111     Document Type: Article

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