Retrospective analyses of large medical databases: what do they tell us?

RA Ward, ME Brier - Journal of the American Society of …, 1999 - journals.lww.com
… We do not yet have enough experience to know which types of retrospective analysis have
… If several retrospective analyses using different methodologies and different data sets show …

Incidence and risk factors for mortality of vertebral osteomyelitis: a retrospective analysis using the Japanese diagnosis procedure combination database

T Akiyama, H Chikuda, H Yasunaga, H Horiguchi… - BMJ open, 2013 - bmjopen.bmj.com
… (including statistical reports and tables) in the study and take responsibility for the integrity
of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. All authors read and approved the final …

Life and times of the impact factor: retrospective analysis of trends for seven medical journals (1994-2005) and their Editors' views

M Chew, EV Villanueva… - … Society of Medicine, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
… Our quantitative analysis of simple observational data was exploratory in nature, generating
issues for the qualitative phase of the study, and we chose not to employ formal tests of …

Maternal mortality during hospital admission for delivery: a retrospective analysis using a state-maintained database

S Panchal, AM Arria, SA Labhsetwar - Anesthesia & Analgesia, 2001 - journals.lww.com
… 1984 to December 1997 and medical and demographic risk factors associated with …
retrospective case control study using patient records from a state-maintained anonymous database

[HTML][HTML] … readmission rates, length of hospital stay, mortality, and medical costs of ten common medical conditions: a retrospective analysis of Hong Kong hospital data

ELY Wong, AWL Cheung, MCM Leung… - BMC health services …, 2011 - Springer
medical conditions in relation to readmission, data on the patients' quality of life, health status,
functional status and satisfaction were unavailable. Finally, the cost data … various medical

Trends in colorectal cancer mortality in Europe: retrospective analysis of the WHO mortality database

DA Ouakrim, C Pizot, M Boniol, M Malvezzi, M Boniol… - Bmj, 2015 - bmj.com
… a similar analysis of corresponding mortality data in the … database for 34 European countries
and the USA for the period 1970-2011.The WHO mortality database provides annual data

[HTML][HTML] … , and outcomes of patients with gastric cancer in the United States: a retrospective analysis of electronic medical record (EMR) and administrative claims data

LM Hess, D Michael, DS Mytelka, J Beyrer, AM Liepa… - Gastric cancer, 2016 - Springer
… The aim of this study was to conduct a retrospective database analysis to describe the … the
IMS Oncology Database, which contains electronic medical record (EMR) data collected from …

Why are patients prescribed proton pump inhibitors? Retrospective analysis of link between morbidity and prescribing in the General Practice Research Database

JNR Bashford, J Norwood, SR Chapman - Bmj, 1998 - bmj.com
… morbidity within a large computerised general practitioner database. Design: Retrospective
survey of morbidity and prescribing data linked to new prescriptions for proton pump …

The association of lacking insurance with outcomes of severe sepsis: retrospective analysis of an administrative database

G Kumar, A Taneja, T Majumdar, ER Jacobs… - … care medicine, 2014 - journals.lww.com
… We performed a retrospective analysis of administrative database—Healthcare Costs and
Utilization Project’s Nationwide Inpatient Sample—to test whether mortality is more likely …

Effectiveness and costs of specialised physiotherapy given via ParkinsonNet: a retrospective analysis of medical claims data

JHL Ypinga, NM de Vries, LHHM Boonen… - The Lancet …, 2018 - thelancet.com
analysis (eg, including an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio) because our database does
not … the specific information on patient-related outcomes needed for this analysis. The claims …