Open AccessPositive predictive value and impact of misdiagnosis of a heart failure diagnosis in administrative registers among patients admitted to a University Hospital cardiac care unit
Author(s) -
Shan Mard,
Finn Erland Nielsen
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.s12457
Subject(s) - medicine , predictive value , heart failure , coronary care unit , value (mathematics) , emergency medicine , pediatrics , unit (ring theory) , intensive care medicine , cardiology , statistics , myocardial infarction , mathematics education , mathematics
To evaluate the positive predictive value (PPV) of a diagnosis of heart failure (HF) in the Danish National Registry of Patients (NRP) among patients admitted to a University Hospital cardiac care unit, and to evaluate the impact of misdiagnosing HF.