Open AccessChildhood Asthma Surveillance using Administrative Data: Consistency between Medical Billing and Hospital Discharge Diagnoses
Author(s) -
France Labrèche,
Tom Kosatsky,
Raymond Przybysz
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
canadian respiratory journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.675
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 1916-7245
pISSN - 1198-2241
DOI - 10.1155/2008/412809
Subject(s) - medicine , asthma , medical diagnosis , medical record , hospital discharge , emergency medicine , hospital admission , family medicine , pediatrics , medical emergency , intensive care medicine , pathology
The absence of ongoing surveillance for childhood asthma in Montreal, Quebec, prompted the present investigation to assess the validity and practicality of administrative databases as a foundation for surveillance.
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