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Quality of routine hospital birth records and the feasibility of their use for creating birth cohorts
Author(s) -
J. E. Murray,
Sonia Saxena,
Neena Modi,
Azeem Majeed,
Paul Aylin,
Alex Bottle
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1741-3850
pISSN - 1741-3842
DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fds077
Subject(s) - quality (philosophy) , medicine , medical emergency , family medicine , environmental health , epistemology , philosophy
Linkage between routinely collected hospital birth and other records offers the potential for epidemiological and public health research by developing population-level birth cohorts with cradle-to-grave follow-up. Data from births in English National Health Service hospitals are collected in the Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) database but are of uncertain quality.

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