Self-reported information on joint replacement and cholecystectomy agrees well with that in medical records.

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OBJECTIVES: To examine the validity of self-reported primary hip replacement, primary knee replacement, and cholecystectomy. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: The data from 28,524 participants in the Million Women Study who were recruited from Scotland were linked with routinely collected Scottish hospital admission data. We compared the reporting of three operations by the study participants on a postal questionnaire with that recorded in the hospital admission database. RESULTS: Annual incidence ra...

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Authors: Liu, B; Sweetland, S; Beral, V; Green, J; Balkwill, A

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Journal of clinical epidemiology
• Volume: 60
• Issue: 11
• Pages: 1190-1194
• Publication date: 2007-11-01
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2007.02.007
• EISSN: 1878-5921
• ISSN: 0895-4356
• Language: English
• Keywords: Female; Humans; Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip; Cohort Studies; Databases, Factual; Scotland; Cholecystectomy; Middle Aged; Million Women Study Collaborators; Hospitalization; Medical Records; Data Collection; Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee; Arthroplasty, Replacement