Frequency-based rare diagnoses as a novel and accessible approach for studying rare diseases in large datasets: a cross-sectional study
Abstract Background Up to 8% of the general population have a rare disease, however, for lack of ICD-10 codes for many rare diseases, this population cannot be generically identified in large medical datasets. We aimed to explore frequency-based rare diagnoses (FB-RDx) as a novel method exploring ra...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2023-06-01
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Series: | BMC Medical Research Methodology |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-023-01972-y |