Validating epilepsy diagnoses in routinely collected data
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Validating epilepsy diagnoses in routinely collected data
PURPOSE Anonymised, routinely-collected healthcare data is increasingly being used for epilepsy research. We validated algorithms using general practitioner (GP) primary healthcare records to identify people with epilepsy from anonymised healthcare data within the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage (SAIL) databank in Wales, UK. METHOD A reference population of 150 people with definite epil...
متن کاملUse of routinely collected data on psychiatric in-patient care
The Department of Health is introducing a new system for collecting data about National Health Service (NHS) mental health care, the Mental Health Minimum Data Set (Glover, 2000). Individual records will be constructed about each period of care received by a patient in the specialist mental health services. In designing the system, a review was undertaken of how in-patient statistics, the only ...
متن کاملIdentifying multidrug resistant tuberculosis transmission hotspots using routinely collected data.
In most countries with large drug resistant tuberculosis epidemics, only those cases that are at highest risk of having MDRTB receive a drug sensitivity test (DST) at the time of diagnosis. Because of this prioritized testing, identification of MDRTB transmission hotspots in communities where TB cases do not receive DST is challenging, as any observed aggregation of MDRTB may reflect systematic...
متن کاملUsing routinely collected data to improve immunisation histories
Immunisation is one of the most effective health interventions in existence yet outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases continue to occur in developed countries. High rates of cover are needed to provide adequate herd immunity and there is evidence that a significant proportion of paediatric inpatients are not up to date even in areas with high levels of community cover. A proportion of these...
متن کاملReliability of Routinely Collected Hospital Data for Child Maltreatment Surveillance
BACKGROUND Internationally, research on child maltreatment-related injuries has been hampered by a lack of available routinely collected health data to identify cases, examine causes, identify risk factors and explore health outcomes. Routinely collected hospital separation data coded using the International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD) system provide an internat...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Seizure
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1059-1311
DOI: 10.1016/j.seizure.2017.10.008