Identifying diabetes cases from administrative data: a population-based validation study

• Egile Nagusiak: Lorraine L. Lipscombe (Egilea), Jeremiah Hwee (Egilea), Lauren Webster (Egilea), Baiju R. Shah (Egilea), Gillian L. Booth (Egilea), Karen Tu (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: BMC, 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Gaiak: article
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Abstract Background Health care data allow for the study and surveillance of chronic diseases such as diabetes. The objective of this study was to identify and validate optimal algorithms for diabetes cases within health care administrative databases for different research purposes, populations, and...