Open AccessIdentifying care-home residents in routine healthcare datasets: a diagnostic test accuracy study of five methods
Author(s) -
Jennifer Burton,
Charis Marwick,
James C. Galloway,
Christopher Hall,
Thomas Nind,
Emma Reynish,
Bruce Guthrie
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
age and ageing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.014
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1468-2834
pISSN - 0002-0729
DOI - 10.1093/ageing/afy137
Subject(s) - medicine , test (biology) , health care , family medicine , paleontology , economics , biology , economic growth
there is no established method to identify care-home residents in routine healthcare datasets. Methods matching patient's addresses to known care-home addresses have been proposed in the UK, but few have been formally evaluated.
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