Mortality in the German Pharmacoepidemiological Research Database (GePaRD) compared to national data in Germany: results from a validation study
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- 作者：Christoph Ohlmeier ; Ingo Langner ; Kathrin Hillebrand ; Niklas Schmedt…
- 关键词：Administrative data ; Claims data ; Health insurance data ; Mortality ; Death ; Validation ; Germany
- 刊名：BMC Public Health
- 出版年：2015
- 出版时间：December 2015
- 年：2015
- 卷：15
- 期：1
- 全文大小：1,319 KB
- 刊物主题：Public Health; Medicine/Public Health, general; Epidemiology; Environmental Health; Biostatistics; Vaccine;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1471-2458
文摘
Background Electronic healthcare databases are of increasing importance in health research and mortality is one of the most relevant outcomes. However, data in these databases need to be validated, since they are often generated for reimbursement purposes. The aims of this study were to compare mortality figures from the German Pharmacoepidemiological Research Database (GePaRD) on an aggregated level with external data from the Federal Statistical Office of Germany (FSOG) and to assess consistency of records of death from core data and hospital data within GePaRD.