Acromegaly according to the Danish National Registry of Patients: How valid are ICD diagnoses and how do patterns of registration affect the accuracy of registry data?

Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 295-299

  Dal, Jakob ^a   Skou, Nikolaj ^a   Nielsen, Eigil Husted ^b   Jørgensen, Jens Otto Lunde ^a   Pedersen, Lars ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Acromegaly; Danish National Registry of Patients; Epidemiology; Incidence; Validation

Indexed keywords

ACROMEGALY; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DENMARK; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE REGISTRY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HYPERPROLACTINEMIA; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; ICD-10; ICD-8; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CODING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REVIEW; SEX RATIO; VALIDITY;

EID: 84940332686     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11791349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/CLEP.S63758     Document Type: Review

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