Validation of fragility fractures in primary care electronic medical records: a population-based study

Electronic medical records databases use validated lists of ICD (or other) codes to identify fractures. These, however, are not specific enough to disentangle traumatic from fragility fractures. We report on the proportion of fragility fractures identified amongst a random sample of coded fractures...

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Auteurs principaux: Martinez-Laguna, D, Soria-Castro, A, Carbonell-Abella, C, Orozco, P, Estrada-Laza, P, Nogues, X, Diez-Perez, A, Prieto-Alhambra, D
Format: Conference item
Publié: Springer Verlag 2016