Helping everyone do better: A call for validation studies of routinely recorded health data

Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2016, Pages 49-51

  Ehrenstein, Vera ^a   Petersen, Irene ^a,b   Smeeth, Liam ^c   Jick, Susan S ^d   Benchimol, Eric I ^e,f   Ludvigsson, Jonas F ^g,h   Sørensen, Henrik Toft ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^f INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^g KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^h ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDITORIAL; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLICATION; VALIDATION STUDY;

EID: 84964344739     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11791349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/CLEP.S104448     Document Type: Editorial

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