Systematic review and critical appraisal of validation studies to identify rheumatic diseases in health administrative databases

Arthritis Care and Research

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1490-1503

  Widdifield, Jessica ^a   Labrecque, Jeremy ^b   Lix, Lisa ^c   Paterson, J Michael ^a   Bernatsky, Sasha ^b   Tu, Karen ^a   Ivers, Noah ^a   Bombardier, Claire ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREVALENCE; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SELF EVALUATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VALIDATION STUDY;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS; RHEUMATIC DISEASES; VALIDATION STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 84881465227     PISSN: 2151464X     EISSN: 21514658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acr.21993     Document Type: Review

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