Accuracy of death certification and hospital record linkage for identification of incident stroke
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>There is little information on the validity of using record linkage with routinely collected data for case ascertainment of stroke in large population-based studies in the UK. We examined the accuracy of these routine record linkage...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2008-11-01
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| Series: | BMC Medical Research Methodology |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2288/8/74 |