Mähönen M, Salomaa V, Keskimäki I, Moltchanov V, Torppa J, Molarius A, Tuomilehto J, Sarti C
Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, KTL-National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland.
Eur J Epidemiol. 2000;16(9):815-7. doi: 10.1023/a:1007697720131.
We assessed the validity of hospital discharge data on stroke in Finland and the feasibility of linked hospital discharge and causes-of-death data for epidemiological studies using the FINMONICA Stroke Register as the reference. The results showed that such data can, with some caution, be used for incidence studies and for identifying first stroke events. They cannot, however, be used for assessing secular trends in all stroke events.
我们以芬兰MONICA卒中登记册为参照,评估了芬兰医院出院时中风数据的有效性,以及将医院出院数据与死因数据相链接用于流行病学研究的可行性。结果表明,此类数据在一定程度上可谨慎用于发病率研究和识别首次中风事件。然而,它们不能用于评估所有中风事件的长期趋势。