Comparison of the validity of stroke diagnoses in a medical quality register and an administrative health register.

CONCLUSIONS: The Norwegian Stroke Register and the Norwegian Patient Register are adequately complete and correct to serve as valuable sources of data for epidemiological, clinical and healthcare studies, as well as for administrative purposes.
PMID: 26660300 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Scandinavian Journal of Public Health - December 11, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Varmdal T, Bakken IJ, Janszky I, Wethal T, Ellekjær H, Rohweder G, Fjærtoft H, Ebbing M, Bønaa KH Tags: Scand J Public Health Source Type: research