Titre
Qualité des données fournies par la statistique médicale VESKA: le cas de la fracture du fémur proximal. [Quality of data provided by VESKA medical statistics: the case of the fractured proximal femur].
Type
article
Institution
UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté + institutions partenaires
Auteur(s)
Gonin, M.
Auteure/Auteur
Vader, J.P.
Auteure/Auteur
Paccaud, F.
Auteure/Auteur
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ISSN
0303-8408
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
1992
Volume
37
Numéro
1
Première page
3
Dernière page/numéro d’article
5
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Langue
français
Résumé
Within the framework of a retrospective study of the incidence of hip fractures in the canton of Vaud (Switzerland), all cases of hip fracture occurring among the resident population in 1986 and treated in the hospitals of the canton were identified from among five different information sources. Relevant data were then extracted from the medical records. At least two sources of information were used to identify cases in each hospital, among them the statistics of the Swiss Hospital Association (VESKA). These statistics were available for 9 of the 18 hospitals in the canton that participated in the study. The number of cases identified from the VESKA statistics was compared to the total number of cases for each hospital. For the 9 hospitals the number of cases in the VESKA statistics was 407, whereas, after having excluded diagnoses that were actually "status after fracture" and double entries, the total for these hospitals was 392, that is 4% less than the VESKA statistics indicate. It is concluded that the VESKA statistics provide a good approximation of the actual number of cases treated in these hospitals, with a tendency to overestimate this number. In order to use these statistics for calculating incidence figures, however, it is imperative that a greater proportion of all hospitals (50% presently in the canton, 35% nationwide) participate in these statistics.
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serval:BIB_1F22189D5259
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Date de création
2011-08-10T14:13:19.100Z
Date de création dans IRIS
2025-05-20T20:04:02Z