Using data linkage to electronic patient records to assess the validity of selected mental health diagnoses in English Hospital Episode Statistics (HES).

<h4>Background</h4>Administrative data can be used to support research, such as in the UK Biobank. Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) are national data for England that include contain ICD-10 diagnoses for inpatient mental healthcare episodes, but the validity of these diagnoses for resea...

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Main Authors: Katrina Alice Southworth Davis, Oliver Bashford, Amelia Jewell, Hitesh Shetty, Robert J Stewart, Cathie L M Sudlow, Matthew Hugo Hotopf
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0195002

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