Pertrochanteric fracture of the femur in the Finnish National Hospital Discharge Register: Validity of procedural coding, external cause for injury and diagnosis

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Huttunen, Tuomas T ^a,c,g   Kannus, Pekka ^b,c   Pihlajamäki, Harri ^c,d   Mattila, Ville M ^a,c,e,f  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UKK INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH PROMOTION RESEARCH   (Finland)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^d SEINÄJOKI CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^f KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^g Department of Clinical Science Intervention and Technology Karolinska Institutet ^*  (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; FEMUR PERTROCHANTERIC FRACTURE; FINNISH NATIONAL HOSPITAL DISCHARGE REGISTER; GOLD STANDARD; HIP RADIOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT CODING; REGISTER; VALIDATION STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CODING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FINLAND; HIP FRACTURES; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; MULTICENTER STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; STANDARDS; VERY ELDERLY; ACCURACY; DISEASE REGISTRY; HOSPITALIZATION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL CODING; FEMALE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FINLAND; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT DISCHARGE; REGISTRIES;

EID: 84901282122     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2474-15-98     Document Type: Article

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