Methods of defining hypertension in electronic medical records: validation against national survey data

ABSTRACT Objectives Electronic medical records (EMR) can be a cost-effective source for hypertension surveillance. However, diagnosis of hypertension in EMR is commonly under-coded and warrants the needs to review blood pressure and antihypertensive drugs for hypertension case identification. To ad...

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Hlavní autoři: Mingkai Peng, Guanmin Chen, Gilaad Kaplan, Lisa Lix, Neil Drummond, Kelsey Lucyk, Stephanie Garies, Mark Lowerison, Samuel Weibe, Hude Quan
Médium: Článek
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: Swansea University 2017-04-01
Edice:International Journal of Population Data Science
On-line přístup:https://ijpds.org/article/view/57