Open AccessValidity of asthma diagnoses in the Danish National Registry of Patients, including an assessment of impact of misclassification on risk estimates in an actual dataset
Author(s) -
Annette Østergaard Jensen
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
clinical epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.868
H-Index - 58
ISSN - 1179-1349
DOI - 10.2147/clep.s6875
Subject(s) - asthma , medicine , medical diagnosis , confidence interval , danish , epidemiology , relative risk , medical record , pediatrics , pathology , philosophy , linguistics
Asthma diagnoses recorded in the Danish National Registry of Patients (DNRP) are a misclassified measure of the actual asthma status. We quantified this misclassification and examined its impact on the results of an epidemiologic study on asthma.
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