Frailty Exacerbates Disability in Progressive Multiple Sclerosis
ABSTRACT Background To evaluate frailty in severe progressive multiple sclerosis (PMS) and to investigate the underlying mechanisms. Methods This prospective, cross‐sectional, multicenter study enrolled a late severe PMS group requiring skilled nursing (n = 53) and an age, sex, and disease duration‐matched control PMS group (n = 53).
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Vaping and Health Service Use: A Canadian Health Survey and Health Administrative Data Study
Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 2023Rationale: Emerging research suggests that e-cigarette (EC) use may have detrimental health effects, increasing the burden on healthcare systems. Objectives: To determine whether young EC users had increased asthma, asthma attacks, and health services use (HSU). Methods: This cohort study used the linked Canadian Community Health Survey (cycles 2015-16
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Health data quality improvement by comparing administrative medical data and billing data
International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2008The increasing use of medical administrative databases in hospital financing means more attention is being paid to their quality. The object of this study is to compare diagnoses found in the medical database to treatments mentioned in the billing database and to identify hospital stays with discrepancies.The analysis is performed for the diagnoses of ...
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Health services research in critical care using administrative data
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Accessing electronic administrative health data for research takes time
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Understanding place and health: A heuristic for using administrative data
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