Predictive value of stroke discharge diagnoses in the Danish National Patient Register.

CONCLUSIONS: The overall stroke diagnosis in the Danish National Patient Register had a limited predictive value. We therefore recommend the critical use of non-validated register data for research on stroke. The possibility of optimising the predictive values based on more advanced algorithms should be considered. PMID: 28701076 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28701076?dopt=Abstract

Source: Scandinavian Journal of Public Health - July 1, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Lühdorf P, Overvad K, Schmidt EB, Johnsen SP, Bach FW Tags: Scand J Public Health Source Type: research