Abstract:BackgroundAccurate estimations of incidence rates are important in all epidemiological studies. Register derived International Classification of Disease (ICD) codes appear near ideal case defining items being seemingly specific and easy to access in large populations, but their applicability in complex clinical syndromes like SLE is still unclear.ObjectivesWe aimed to clarify accuracy of ICD-10 coding in incident SLE by directly comparing incidence rates from code-based case-definitions and verified SLE diagno… Show more
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