Abstract
Wing (1975) has identified three characteristics of case registers that make them especially important as research instruments in epidemiology:
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The registers contain unduplicated counts of the contacts of each patient and thus avoid selection biases inherent in data available from any single facility.
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The registers contain information on the population of a particular area or nation; this census data can be utilized to calculate rates.
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The registers contain data on each patient for every episode of care; thus the history of the patients can be ascertained.
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Dupont, A. (1981). Disease Registers. In: Schulsinger, F., Mednick, S.A., Knop, J. (eds) Longitudinal Research. Longitudinal Research in the Behavioral, Social, and Medical Studies, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8147-8_5
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