General practice data retrieval: the Northern Ireland project
| Autor: | Charles McAteer, Philip Reilly, Hazel Grandidier, Colm Rafferty, Leslie Boydell |
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| Rok vydání: | 1995 |
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Male Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Epidemiology Myocardial Infarction Northern Ireland Sensitivity and Specificity Sex Factors Data retrieval Diabetes Mellitus Humans Medicine Myocardial infarction Medical diagnosis Child Depression (differential diagnoses) Aged Data collection Depression business.industry Data Collection Incidence Incidence (epidemiology) Public health Age Factors Infant Newborn Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Infant Middle Aged medicine.disease Child Preschool Family medicine Female Family Practice business Sentinel Surveillance Research Article |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. 49:22-25 |
| ISSN: | 0143-005X |
| DOI: | 10.1136/jech.49.suppl_1.22 |
| Popis: | OBJECTIVE--To develop an epidemiological database of morbidity in the community as presented to general practitioners and to support epidemiological research in general practice. DESIGN--The project is a sentinel network of 23 general practices in Northern Ireland that report the incidence of a list of selected diseases to a central unit for analysis. RESULTS--Results are presented for depression, diabetes, and myocardial infarction. The age--sex distributions of diabetes and myocardial infarction are comparable with other published data but the incidence of depression is under estimated. CONCLUSIONS--The importance of complete accuracy of data reported within sentinel networks depends on the purposes for which information is to be used. For some diagnoses, such as diabetes and acute myocardial infarction, the accuracy of the reported incidence is high while for other diseases, such as depression, where diagnostic behaviour varies more between doctors, the figures are much less reliable. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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