Validation of Algorithms to Identify Acute Myocardial Infarction, Stroke, and Cardiovascular Death in German Health Insurance Data.
Katharina PlatzbeckerAnnemarie VossJonas ReinoldAnne ElbrechtWolfgang BiewenerDaniel Prieto AlhambraAnnika M JödickeCristina RebordosaPublished in: Clinical epidemiology (2022)
Algorithms based on hospital diagnoses can identify AMI, stroke, and CV death from German claims data with high PPV. This was the first study to show that German claims data contain information suitable for outcome validation.