Quality of venous thromboembolism diagnoses among prostate cancer patients in the Danish National Registry of Patients

Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2014, Pages 351-357

  Drljevic, Aska ^a   Borre, Michael ^a   Høyer, Morten ^a   Ehrenstein, Vera ^a   Nguyen Nielsen, Mary ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Positive predictive value; Prostatic neoplasms; Validation study; Venous thromboembolism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER REGISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DANISH CITIZEN; DENMARK; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARDIZATION; VALIDATION STUDY; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 84907515013     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11791349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/CLEP.S65681     Document Type: Article

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