Refinement of Swedish Administrative Registers to Monitor Stroke Events on the National Level
Author(s) -
Max Köster,
Kjell Asplund,
Åsa Johansson,
Birgitta Stegmayr
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
neuroepidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.217
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1423-0208
pISSN - 0251-5350
DOI - 10.1159/000345953
Subject(s) - medicine , stroke (engine) , epidemiology , population , incidence (geometry) , register (sociolinguistics) , pediatrics , medical emergency , demography , emergency medicine , environmental health , mechanical engineering , physics , optics , sociology , engineering , linguistics , philosophy
Routinely collected databases are kept for administrative purposes. We have refined the analyses of the Swedish National Patient Register and the Cause of Death Register and explored their validity to monitor stroke at the population level.
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