Failure to use linked health records may lead to biased disease estimates

“Failure to use linked electronic health records may lead to biased estimates of heart attack incidence and outcome, warn researchers in a paper published in BMJ today. They show that up to 50% of all heart attack cases are missed using just one data source. These findings may be relevant to other common conditions, such as [...]
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - Category: Information Technology Authors: Tags: News Cardiology Failure Record Linkage Source Type: news