Accuracy of Canadian health administrative databases in identifying patients with rheumatoid arthritis: A validation study using the medical records of rheumatologists

Arthritis Care and Research

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1582-1591

  Widdifield, Jessica ^a   Bernatsky, Sasha ^b   Paterson, J Michael ^a   Tu, Karen ^a   Ng, Ryan ^a   Thorne, J Carter ^c   Pope, Janet E ^d   Bombardier, Claire ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c SOUTHLAKE REGIONAL HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABATACEPT; ADALIMUMAB; AZATHIOPRINE; CERTOLIZUMAB PEGOL; CHLOROQUINE; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; ETANERCEPT; GLUCOCORTICOID; GOLD; GOLIMUMAB; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; INFLIXIMAB; LEFLUNOMIDE; METHOTREXATE; MINOCYCLINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; RITUXIMAB; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; TOCILIZUMAB;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS; ARTICLE; BURSITIS; CANADA; CANADIAN HEALTH ADMINISTRATIVE DATABASE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; GOUT; HEALTH; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PHARMACY; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREVALENCE; PSORIASIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATIC POLYMYALGIA; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RHEUMATOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPONDYLOARTHROPATHY; SYNOVITIS; TENOSYNOVITIS; VALIDATION STUDY; VASCULITIS;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DATA MINING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; FEES AND CHARGES; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHEUMATOLOGY; SINGLE-PAYER SYSTEM;

EID: 84881534693     PISSN: 2151464X     EISSN: 21514658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acr.22031     Document Type: Article

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