Identification of esophageal cancer in the General Practice Research Database

Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1159-1167

  Walker, Alexander M ^a  

^a World Health Information Science Consultants LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Disease identification; GPRD; Occurrence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CODING; DATA BASE; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL CODING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFTWARE;

EID: 80555150596     PISSN: 10538569     EISSN: 10991557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pds.2249     Document Type: Article

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