Use of large medical databases to study associations between diseases.

We describe the use of a dataset of statistical medical records, the Oxford Record Linkage Study (ORLS), to identify diseases which occur together more commonly (association), or less commonly (dissociation), than their individual frequencies in the population would predict. We investigated some con...

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Main Authors: Goldacre, M, Kurina, L, Yeates, D, Seagroatt, V, Gill, L
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2000