Validation of spontaneous abortion diagnoses in the Danish National Registry of Patients

Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 247-250

  Lohse, Sarah Rytter ^a   Farkas, Dóra Körmendiné ^a   Lohse, Nicolai ^a   Skouby, Sven Olaf ^b   Nielsen, Finn Erland ^b   Lash, Timothy L ^a   Ehrenstein, Vera ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Danish National Registry of Patients; Diagnosis; Positive predictive value; Spontaneous abortion; Validation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; DENMARK; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; IMMINENT ABORTION; INDUCED ABORTION; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MISSED ABORTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REGISTER; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; VALIDATION STUDY;

EID: 78650685708     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11791349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2147/CLEP.S13815     Document Type: Article

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