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The authors are also grateful to all SHIs that provided data for this study: the Allgemeine Ortskrankenkasse (AOK) Bremen/Bremerhaven, the DAK Gesundheit-Unternehmen Leben, the Techniker Krankenkasse (TK) and the hkk Parts of the analyses presented in this paper were conducted in a project focussing on the validation of birth information in GePaRD with funding from the Bayer Pharma AG.
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For those variables reported on both, information from the birth record was used unless the hospital birth admission record was indicated as being more reliable according to validation studies of birth and hospital data [ 35- 37].
Validation studies of birth certificates in California and other U.S. states have indicated that factors such as demographic information and parity have a validity of > 90% (Baumeister et al. 2000; Northam and Knapp 2006).
Content validation of the Canadian Birth Place survey instrument by provider-specific expert panels, and pilot testing by physician and midwife resident learners, are described elsewhere [ 24].
The validation of the Taiwanese birth registration showed a low percentage of missing information (1.6%) and high levels of validity (sensitivity and specificity was 92.8%, and 99.6% respectively) and reliability (Cohen's k statistics was 0.92) [ 16].
There is no validation of your date of birth in any fashion, so there's nothing to prevent a minor from lying and following Jim Beam on Twitter.
The reliability of genomic prediction was evaluated by assigning all 5503 bulls to either the training or validation set based on year of birth, according to the protocol used to validate genomic prediction in practice.
The dataset available for this study was split into training and validation populations according to date of birth.
4 In PICANet, systematic validation of NHS number, date of birth, postcode (using the AFD tool: http://www.afd.co.uk) and checks for missing or incongruous values are carried out via a custom designed web data entry interface that is accessed via a highly secure and restricted login.
The accuracy of the data for the key variables was ensured by multiple checking, internal (within the database) and external (with national and regional death data, and other local sources of birth record data) validation of the data.
Comprehensive internal data validation was undertaken including the verification of date of birth, sex, birth outcome, and date and cause of death across the datasets used.
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