Open Access<p>Diagnosis of Open Tibial Fracture Showed High Positive Predictive Value in the Swedish National Patient Register</p>
Author(s) -
Ulrika Tampe,
Sonny Frank,
Rüdiger J Weiss,
Karl-Åke Jansson
Publication year - 2020
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.s271173
Subject(s) - medicine , predictive value , register (sociolinguistics) , tibial fracture , surgery , tibia , philosophy , linguistics
The Swedish National Patient Register was validated only for a few diagnoses in the field of trauma. In this study, we calculated the positive predictive values (PPV) of the diagnosis of open tibial fracture and corresponding E-codes (cause of injury).