TY - JOUR AU - Pouwels, Koen Bernardus AU - Voorham, Jaco AU - Hak, Eelko AU - Denig, Petra PY - 2016 DA - 2016/04/02 TI - Identification of major cardiovascular events in patients with diabetes using primary care data JO - BMC Health Services Research SP - 110 VL - 16 IS - 1 AB - Routine primary care data are increasingly being used for evaluation and research purposes but there are concerns about the completeness and accuracy of diagnoses and events captured in such databases. We evaluated how well patients with major cardiovascular disease (CVD) can be identified using primary care morbidity data and drug prescriptions. SN - 1472-6963 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-016-1361-2 DO - 10.1186/s12913-016-1361-2 ID - Pouwels2016 ER -