Completeness and diagnostic validity of recording acute myocardial infarction events in primary care, hospital care, disease registry, and national mortality records: cohort study
Objective
To determine the completeness and diagnostic validity of myocardial infarction recording across four national health record sources in primary care, hospital care, a disease registry, and mortality register.
Design
Cohort study.
Participants
21 482 patients with acute myocardial infarction in England between January 2003 and March 2009, identified in four prospectively collected, linked electronic health record [...]
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: Bibliography Journal Article Science UK EHR Cardiology Source Type: news
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