Completeness and diagnostic validity of recording acute myocardial infarction events in primary care, hospital care, disease registry, and national mortality records: Cohort study

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 346, Issue 7909, 2013, Pages

  Herrett, Emily ^a   Shah, Anoop Dinesh ^b   Boggon, Rachael ^c,d   Denaxas, Spiros ^b   Smeeth, Liam ^a   Van Staa, Tjeerd ^a,c,d   Timmis, Adam ^e   Hemingway, Harry ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MEDICINES AND HEALTHCARE PRODUCTS REGULATORY AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC VALIDITY; DISEASE REGISTRY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EVALUATION AND FOLLOW UP; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MORTALITY; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION;

CLINICAL CODING; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; ENGLAND; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REGISTRIES;

EID: 84878293061     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.f2350     Document Type: Article

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