Validity and underrecording of diagnosis of COPD in the Danish National Patient Registry

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 105, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1063-1068

  Thomsen, Reimar W ^a   Lange, Peter ^b   Hellquist, Birthe ^a   Frausing, Ejvind ^b   Bartels, Paul D ^c   Krog, Birgitte R ^c   Hansen, Anne Marie S ^c   Buck, Daniel ^a   Bunk, Anette E ^c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c Danish National Indicator Project (DNIP) Secretariat   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Hospitalization; International Classification of Disease Codes; Pneumonia; Respiratory failure; Validation studies

Indexed keywords

ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DENMARK; DISEASE REGISTRY; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEDICAL RECORD; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIROMETRY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; DENMARK; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PNEUMONIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; REGISTRIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; SPIROMETRY;

EID: 79957507427     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: 15323064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2011.01.012     Document Type: Article

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