Year: 2019
Type: editorial
Abstract: Administrative claims and other routinely collected data provide the foundation for many drug utilization, safety, and effectiveness studies. These databases provide a rich source of timely health care information on large, well‐defined populations. Yet information contained in these databases is generally captured using standardized systems, summarizing complex medical histories, clinical diagnoses, and services and therapies provided to patients. Thus, carefully designed validation studies that evaluate the accuracy of coded algorithms to identify health‐related exposures, outcomes, and covariates against a reference standard are an essential component for demonstrating the validity of their use for research purposes.
DOI: 10.1002/pds.4694
Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Language: English
Subfield: Toxicology
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2911932306