Longitudinal Research pp 95-102 | Cite as
Disease Registers
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Abstract
Wing (1975) has identified three characteristics of case registers that make them especially important as research instruments in epidemiology:
- 1.
The registers contain unduplicated counts of the contacts of each patient and thus avoid selection biases inherent in data available from any single facility.
- 2.
The registers contain information on the population of a particular area or nation; this census data can be utilized to calculate rates.
- 3.
The registers contain data on each patient for every episode of care; thus the history of the patients can be ascertained.
Keywords
Longitudinal Prospective Study Case Register Single Facility Avoid Selection Bias Municipal Region
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