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Can Hospital Discharge Databases Be Used to Follow Ischemic Stroke Incidence?
Author(s) -
Julie Haesebaert,
Anne Termoz,
Stéphanie Polazzi,
Christelle Mouchoux,
Laura Mechtouff,
Laurent Derex,
Norbert Nighoghossian,
AnneMarie Schott
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
stroke
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397
H-Index - 319
eISSN - 1524-4628
pISSN - 0039-2499
DOI - 10.1161/strokeaha.113.001300
Subject(s) - medicine , confidence interval , incidence (geometry) , false positive paradox , emergency medicine , prospective cohort study , cohort , stroke (engine) , medical record , hospital discharge , cohort study , retrospective cohort study , database , pediatrics , machine learning , mechanical engineering , physics , computer science , optics , engineering
Because acute ischemic strokes (ISs) are mainly hospitalized, hospital discharge data could be used to routinely follow their incidence management. We aimed to assess sensitivity and positive predictive value of the French hospital discharge database (HDD) to identify patients with acute IS using a prospective and exhaustive cohort (AVC69) of acute IS cases.

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