Author's response to reviews Title: Chronic disease prevalence from Italian administrative databases in the VALORE project: a validation through comparison of population estimates with general practice databases and national survey
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Rosa Gini ([email protected]) Paolo Francesconi ([email protected]) Giampiero Mazzaglia ([email protected]) Iacopo Cricelli ([email protected]) Alessandro Pasqua ([email protected]) Pietro Gallina ([email protected]) Salvatore Brugaletta ([email protected]) Daniele Donato ([email protected]) Andrea Donatini ([email protected]) Alessandro Marini ([email protected]) Carlo Zocchetti ([email protected]) Claudio Cricelli ([email protected]) Gianfranco Damiani ([email protected]) Mariadonata Bellentani ([email protected]) Miriam CJM Sturkenboom ([email protected]) Martijn J Schuemie ([email protected])
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Chronic disease prevalence from Italian administrative databases in the VALORE project: a validation through comparison of population estimates with general practice databases and national survey
BACKGROUND Administrative databases are widely available and have been extensively used to provide estimates of chronic disease prevalence for the purpose of surveillance of both geographical and temporal trends. There are, however, other sources of data available, such as medical records from primary care and national surveys. In this paper we compare disease prevalence estimates obtained from...
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