Completeness of registration of tuberculosis in the Netherlands: examination of sources, record-linkage, case-ascertainment and capture-recapture analysis
The aim of this study was to describe a systematic process of record-linkage, cross-validation, case-ascertainment and capture-recapture analysis to assess the quality of tuberculosis registers and to estimate the completeness of notification of incident tuberculosis cases in The Netherlands in 1998. After record-linkage and cross-validation 1499 tuberculosis patients were identified, of whom 1298 were notified, resulting in an observed under-notification of 13.4%. After adjustment for possible imperfect record-linkage and remaining false-positive hospital cases observed under-notification was... Mehr ...
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van Hest, R.
Smit, H.F.E.
Baars, H.
de Vries, G.
de Haas, P.
Westenend, P.
Nagelkerke, N.
Richardus, J.H. |
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Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: |
2007 |
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van Hest , R , Smit , H F E , Baars , H , de Vries , G , de Haas , P , Westenend , P , Nagelkerke , N & Richardus , J H 2007 , ' Completeness of registration of tuberculosis in the Netherlands: examination of sources, record-linkage, case-ascertainment and capture-recapture analysis ' , Epidemiology and Infection , vol. 135 , pp. 1021-1029 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268806007540 |
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/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/good_health_and_well_being
/ name=SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being |
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Englisch |
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