We systematically reviewed registry studies (n = 6) and non-registry studies (n = 241) on knee arthroplasty published in indexed, peer-reviewed international scientific journals.
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Reference standard definitions included medical chart review, ICU registry database (both validated and not validated by ICU physicians), bacteraemia-specific registry database, surgical inpatient database and a cohort of patients who had been entered into severe sepsis clinical trials based on specified and defined inclusion criteria.
Reported diseases were validated through medical records review and registry matching.
Clinical follow-up information was obtained by chart review, tumor registry query, and contact with the treating physician.
The demographic data and clinical characteristics of the study population were acquired from clinical chart review, tumor registry information, physicians' records, patients' correspondence, and telephone interviews.
To assist with selection of potential peer coaches, primary care clinicians (or other clinic staff familiar with the patients) review the registry search results.
It is a retrospective review of registry data in which a variable proportion of records contained missing data, but this is inevitable to a degree in analyses of multiple registries.
Invasive epithelial ovarian cancer, defined by ICD-9 code 183.0 or ICD-10 code C56, was ascertained by self-report with subsequent medical record review, cancer registry linkage, or both.
Identified stakeholders from the literature review included registry participants (i.e. patients), clinical care providers (treating physicians often in possession of medical data), research ethics boards, and data users (researchers, governmental agencies, health medical organizations).
