Open AccessCompleteness in the Swedish Fracture Register and the Swedish National Patient Register: An Assessment of Humeral Fracture Registrations
Author(s) -
Carl Bergdahl,
Fredrik Nilsson,
David Wennergren,
Carl Ekholm,
Michael Möller
Publication year - 2021
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.s307762
Subject(s) - medicine , completeness (order theory) , register (sociolinguistics) , diagnosis code , gold standard (test) , mathematics , mathematical analysis , population , philosophy , linguistics , environmental health
Register-based clinical research is important. However, it is essential that the collected data are reliable for the registers to be a valuable source of information. This study evaluated the quality of humeral fracture data in the Swedish Fracture Register (SFR) and in the Swedish National Patient Register (NPR). Furthermore, a model for improved case ascertainment was developed for future validation processes.