Identifying Patients with Physician-Diagnosed Asthma in Health Administrative Databases
oleh: Andrea S Gershon, Chengning Wang, Jun Guan, Jovanka Vasilevska-Ristovska, Lisa Cicutto, Teresa To
| Format: | Article |
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| Diterbitkan: | Hindawi Limited 2009-01-01 |
Deskripsi
BACKGROUND: Asthma imposes a heavy and expensive burden on individuals and populations. A population-based surveillance and research program based on health administrative data could measure and study the burden of asthma; however, the validity of a health administrative data diagnosis of asthma must first be confirmed.