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Matti A. Vuori

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The validity of heart failure diagnoses in the Finnish Hospital Discharge Register.

2019

Background: Contemporary validation studies of register-based heart failure diagnoses based on current guidelines and complete clinical data are lacking in Finland and internationally. Our objective was to assess the positive and negative predictive values of heart failure diagnoses in a nationwide hospital discharge register. Methods: Using Finnish Hospital Discharge Register data from 2013–2015, we obtained the medical records for 120 patients with a register-based diagnosis for heart failure (cases) and for 120 patients with a predisposing condition for heart failure, but without a heart failure diagnosis (controls). The medical records of all patients were assessed by a physician who c…

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HFvalidsupplement_210319_SJPH – Supplemental material for The validity of heart failure diagnoses in the Finnish Hospital Discharge Register

2019

Supplemental material, HFvalidsupplement_210319_SJPH for The validity of heart failure diagnoses in the Finnish Hospital Discharge Register by Matti A. Vuori, Jari A. Laukkanen, Arto Pietilä, Aki S. Havulinna, Mika Kähönen, Veikko Salomaa and Teemu J. Niiranen in Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

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