How many people have had a myocardial infarction? Prevalence estimated using historical hospital data
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How many people have had a myocardial infarction? Prevalence estimated using historical hospital data
BACKGROUND Health administrative data are increasingly used to examine disease occurrence. However, health administrative data are typically available for a limited number of years - posing challenges for estimating disease prevalence and incidence. The objective of this study is to estimate the prevalence of people previously hospitalized with an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) using 17 year...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Public Health
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1471-2458
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-174