O01 - Validation of asthma and eczema in population-based Swedish health registers
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Method Data were retrieved on all 0-17-year-old individuals with reported asthma/eczema medication in the Swedish Prescribed Drug Register (SPDR) and/or an asthma diagnosis in the National Patient Register (NPR) between 2005-2009 (N=121,944). Medical records retrieved from prescribing units, for 2,250 randomly selected individuals, were reviewed to estimate the proportion of individuals with 1) asthma/eczema medication in the SPDR who had a doctor diagnosis of asthma/ eczema and/or; 2) fulfilled predefined criteria of asthma by the Swedish Paediatric Society (positive predictive value, PPV); 3) an asthma diagnosis in the NPR verified as asthmatics by predefined criteria.
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Validation of asthma and eczema in population-based Swedish drug and patient registers.
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