Quality of routine hospital birth records and the feasibility of their use for creating birth cohorts

Conclusions
The completeness of recording of hospital birth information varies greatly between hospitals in England but is improving. It may be preferable and valid to construct cohorts from only hospitals with high completeness of recording.

Source: Journal of Public Health - June 1, 2013 Category: Health Management Authors: Murray, J., Saxena, S., Modi, N., Majeed, A., Aylin, P., Bottle, A., on behalf of the Medicines for Neonates Investigator Group Tags: Health Services Source Type: research