Validity of an algorithm to identify cardiovascular deaths from administrative health records: a multi-database population-based cohort study

• Main Authors: Lisa M. Lix (Author), Shamsia Sobhan (Author), Audray St-Jean (Author), Jean-Marc Daigle (Author), Anat Fisher (Author), Oriana H. Y. Yu (Author), Sophie Dell'Aniello (Author), Nianping Hu (Author), Shawn C. Bugden (Author), Baiju R. Shah (Author), Paul E. Ronksley (Author), Silvia Alessi-Severini (Author), Antonios Douros (Author), Pierre Ernst (Author), Kristian B. Filion (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Cardiovascular death is a common outcome in population-based studies about new healthcare interventions or treatments, such as new prescription medications. Vital statistics registration systems are often the preferred source of information about cause-specific mortality because...