Quality assurance of the Western Denmark Heart Registry, a population-based healthcare register.
CONCLUSIONS: The quality control of the WDHR revealed that overall data errors were lower than 3% and for procedure-specific registrations including indications and complications, the error rate was below 1.5%. The WDHR is valid and may be used in contemporary epidemiological studies.
FUNDING: none.
TRIAL REGISTRATION: not relevant.
PMID: 28975887 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Danish Medical Journal - Category: General Medicine Tags: Dan Med J Source Type: research
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