title: Estimating rare disease prevalence from administrative hospitalization databases.
authors.forename: Michael M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Ward
mesh_terms: D002140:California / Q000453:epidemiology; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D015995:Prevalence; D035583:Rare Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity