Development and use of reporting guidelines for assessing the quality of validation studies of health administrative data

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 821-829

  Benchimol, Eric I ^a,b,c,d,e   Manuel, Douglas G ^a,e,f,g,h   To, Teresa ^a,b,c   Griffiths, Anne M ^b,c   Rabeneck, Linda ^a,c,i   Guttmann, Astrid ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^g OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^h STATISTICS CANADA   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diagnostic accuracy; Epidemiology; Health administrative data; Health services research; Misclassification bias; Predictive values; Sensitivity and specificity

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; CHECKLIST; FORMS AND RECORDS CONTROL; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITAL RECORDS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; QUALITY CONTROL; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH; VALIDATION STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 79959767784     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: 18785921     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2010.10.006     Document Type: Review

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