The feasibility of combining data from routine Hospital Discharge and Causes-of-Death Registers for epidemiological studies on stroke
- 1 January 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in European Journal of Epidemiology
- Vol. 16 (9), 815-817
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1007697720131
Abstract
We assessed the validity of hospital discharge data on stroke in Finland and the feasibility of linked hospital discharge and causes-of-death data for epidemiological studies using the FINMONICA...Keywords
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