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Completeness of case ascertainment in Swedish hospital‐based stroke registers

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There is a worldwide development toward using data from hospital‐based stroke registers to estimate epidemiological trends. However, incomplete case ascertainment may cause selection bias. We examined the completeness of case… Click to show full abstract

There is a worldwide development toward using data from hospital‐based stroke registers to estimate epidemiological trends. However, incomplete case ascertainment may cause selection bias. We examined the completeness of case ascertainment and selection bias in two hospital‐based Swedish stroke registers.

Keywords: stroke registers; case ascertainment; hospital based

Journal Title: Acta Neurologica Scandinavica
Year Published: 2019

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