Refinement of Swedish administrative registers to monitor stroke events on the national level

Neuroepidemiology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 240-246

  Köster, Max ^a   Asplund, Kjell ^b   Johansson, Åsa ^b   Stegmayr, Birgitta ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL BOARD OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Administrative registers; Attack rate; Event rate; Incidence; Northern Sweden MONICA study; Stroke; Validation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REGISTER; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 84873048177     PISSN: 02515350     EISSN: 14230208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000345953     Document Type: Article

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