Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 59, Issue 8 , Pages 802-807 , August 2006

Administrative data accurately identified intensive care unit admissions in Ontario

  • Damon C. Scales

      Affiliations

    • Department of Critical Care, Sunnybrook & Women's College Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, G1 06, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M4N 3M5
    • Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care, University of Toronto, G1 06, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M4N 3M5
    • Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: 416-480-5291; fax: 416-480-4999.
    • ,
  • Jun Guan

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Claudio M. Martin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
    • Centre for Critical Illness Research, Lawson Health Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Donald A. Redelmeier

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Department of Medicine, Sunnybrook & Women's College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

,Accepted 27 November 2005.

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PII: S0895-4356(06)00004-7

doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2005.11.015

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Volume 59, Issue 8 , Pages 802-807 , August 2006

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