Developing and validating an algorithm to identify incident chronic dialysis patients using administrative data

Developing and validating an algorithm to identify incident chronic dialysis patients using administrative data

Abstract Background Administrative healthcare databases are widespread and are often standardized with regard to their content and data coding, thus they can be used also as data sources for surveillance and epidemiological research. Chronic dialysis requires patients to frequently access hospital a...

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Main Authors: Dino Gibertoni, Claudio Voci, Marica Iommi, Benedetta D’Ercole, Marcora Mandreoli, Antonio Santoro, Elena Mancini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-08-01
Series:BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
Subjects:
Chronic dialysis
Administrative data
Hospital discharge records
Ambulatory specialty visits
Case definition
Algorithm
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12911-020-01206-x

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