Comparing methods for identifying patients with heart failure using electronic data sources

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Accurately indentifying heart failure (HF) patients from administrative claims data is useful for both research and quality of care efforts. Yet, there are few comparisons of the various claims data criteria (also known as claims sig...

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Main Authors: Peterson Edward L, Williams L, Alqaisi Fadi, Lanfear David E
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2009-12-01
Series:BMC Health Services Research
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/9/237