Completeness and diagnostic validity of recording acute myocardial infarction events in primary care, hospital care, disease registry, and national mortality records: cohort study

Herrett, Emily; D Shah, Anoop; Boggon, Rachael; Denaxas, Spiros; Smeeth, Liam; van Staa, Tjeerd; Timmis, Adam; Hemingway, Harry

doi:10.1136/bmj.f2350

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Completeness and diagnostic validity of recording acute myocardial infarction events in primary care, hospital care, disease registry, and national mortality records: cohort study

Published in BMJ • May 21, 2013

Authors:

Emily Herrett

Anoop D Shah

Rachael Boggon

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To determine the completeness and diagnostic validity of myocardial infarction recording across four national health record sources in primary care, hospital care, a disease registry, and mortality register. DESIGN: Cohort study. PARTICIPANTS: 21 482 patients with acute myocardial infarct...

Subject

Medicine

Myocardial infarction

Emergency medicine

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