Direct assessment of completeness of ascertainment in a stroke incidence study.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Validity of comparisons of stroke incidence between studies or time periods depends on the completeness of ascertainment. Ascertainment cannot be reliably assessed indirectly by statistical methods, such as capture-recapture. We report the first use of direct methods to dete...

詳細記述

書誌詳細
主要な著者: Coull, A, Silver, L, Bull, L, Giles, M, Rothwell, P
フォーマット: Journal article
言語:English
出版事項: 2004