Refining Hypertension Surveillance to Account for Potentially Misclassified Cases

Refining Hypertension Surveillance to Account for Potentially Misclassified Cases

Administrative health data have been used in hypertension surveillance using the 1H2P method: the International Classification of Disease (ICD) hypertension diagnosis codes were recorded in at least 1 hospitalization or 2 physician claims within 2 year-period. Accumulation of false positive cases ov...

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Main Authors: Peng, Mingkai, Chen, Guanmin, Lix, Lisa M., McAlister, Finlay A., Tu, Karen, Campbell, Norm R., Hemmelgarn, Brenda R., Svenson, Lawrence W., Quan, Hude
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4372561/

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