Estimating frequency of disease findings from combined hospital databases: a UMLS project.
Year: 1991
Type: article
Abstract: Merging data from the Salt Lake VA hospital database and the LDS hospital HELP system into a UMLS sponsored unified patient database has demonstrated that distribution of variables within a disease is hospital independent. Although disease prevalence is clearly not the same among hospitals, analysis of data within a disease group across hospitals can be done using such a merged database. This unified patient database would allow study of unusual diseases not possible using data from a single institution.
Source: PubMed Central
Authors: L S Fu, S Huff, O Bouhaddou, B Bray, H Warner
Institution: University of Utah
Language: English
Subfield: Health Information Management
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2290227398