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Completeness of notification of tuberculosis in The Netherlands: how reliable is record-linkage and capture–recapture analysis?
7 Dec 2006
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The aim of this study was to describe a systematic process of record-linkage, cross-validation, case-ascertainment and capture-recapture analysis to assess the quality of tuberculosis registers and to estimate the completeness of notification of incident tuberculosis cases in The Netherlands in 1998. After record-linkage and cross-validation 1499 tuberculosis patients were identified, of whom 1298 were notified,...
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