The use of hospital admission data in epidemiological research: a pilot study based on British Columbia Hospital Insurance Service records
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2014-07-15
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Brauer, Gerhard Walter
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Abstract
This paper represents an attempt to come to grips with a methodological problem arising out of recent trends in epidemiological research. During the past twenty years epidemiology has seen a marked change from interest in the infectious diseases to concern with non-infectious diseases.
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Keywords
epidemiology, non-infectious diseases, hospital records, census data