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Jul 19, 2005 - renal disease. Although UK general practice is com- puterized, important clinical data might be recorded in letters or free-text computer entries ...
Nephrol Dial Transplant (2005) 20: 2089–2096 doi:10.1093/ndt/gfi006 Advance Access publication 19 July 2005

Original Article

The validity of searching routinely collected general practice computer data to identify patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD): a manual review of 500 medical records Sobana Anandarajah1, Tracy Tai1, Simon de Lusignan2, Paul Stevens3, Donal O’Donoghue4, Mel Walker5 and Sean Hilton1 1

Abstract Background. We conducted a search of 12 practices’ routinely collected computer data in three localities across the UK and found that 4.9% of the registered population had an estimated glomerular filtration rate (GFR) of

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