Identifying Patients with Physician-Diagnosed Asthma in Health Administrative Databases

Identifying Patients with Physician-Diagnosed Asthma in Health Administrative Databases

BACKGROUND: Asthma imposes a heavy and expensive burden on individuals and populations. A population-based surveillance and research program based on health administrative data could measure and study the burden of asthma; however, the validity of a health administrative data diagnosis of asthma mus...

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Main Authors: Andrea S Gershon, Chengning Wang, Jun Guan, Jovanka Vasilevska-Ristovska, Lisa Cicutto, Teresa To
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2009-01-01
Series:Canadian Respiratory Journal
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/963098

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