Methods of defining hypertension in electronic medical records: validation against national survey data
ABSTRACT Objectives Electronic medical records (EMR) can be a cost-effective source for hypertension surveillance. However, diagnosis of hypertension in EMR is commonly under-coded and warrants the needs to review blood pressure and antihypertensive drugs for hypertension case identification. To ad...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Swansea University
2017-04-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Population Data Science |
| Online Access: | https://ijpds.org/article/view/57 |