Children diagnosed with congenital cardiac malformations at the national university departments of pediatric cardiology: Positive predictive values of data in the Danish National Patient Registry

Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 61-66

  Agergaard, Peter ^a   Hebert, Anders ^b   Bjerre, Jesper ^c   Sørensen, Karina Meden ^d   Olesen, Charlotte ^c   Østergaard, John Rosendal ^c  

^a VIBORG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Congenital cardiac malformation; Registry; Validation

Indexed keywords

AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MALFORMATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE REGISTRY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 79952938225     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11791349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/CLEP.S15627     Document Type: Article

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