Open AccessImportance of Reporting Complete Procedures of Identifying Patients from the Danish National Patient Registry: The Case of Neonatal Jaundice and Epilepsy
Author(s) -
Yuelian Sun,
Julie Werenberg Dreier,
Chunsen Wu,
Véra Ehrenstein,
Jakob Christensen
Publication year - 2022
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.s353215
Subject(s) - medicine , medical diagnosis , jaundice , pediatrics , referral , danish , epidemiology , population , epilepsy , cohort , disease , family medicine , psychiatry , surgery , pathology , linguistics , philosophy , environmental health
The Danish National Patient Registry (DNPR) is a valuable resource for medical and epidemiological Research. However, not all research articles fully described procedures they used to identify events. In this study, we compared two approaches in identifying persons with a disease diagnosis using neonatal jaundice and epilepsy as examples.