big data and death Archives - ACR Meeting Abstracts

Abstract Number: 986 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2017
Do Death Certificates Underestimate the Burden of Rare Diseases: The Example of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Mortality in Sweden
Titilola Falasinnu¹, Marios Rossides², Yashaar Chaichian³ and Julia F Simard⁴, ¹Health Research and Policy, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, ²Medicine Solna, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ³Medicine, Immunology & Rheumatology Division, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, ⁴Division of Epidemiology, Health Research and Policy Department, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
Background/Purpose: Routine data sources such as death certificates are used to estimate the burden or cost of disease in a population. However, mortality due to…

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