Clinical and research databases in healthcare research.
How reliable are databases as a source of potential participants for research? Jill Firth and Naomi Reay suggest that caution is required.
Firth
Jill
J
School of Healthcare, University of Leeds, UK.
Reay
Naomi
N
D000043:Abstracting and Indexing / Q000592:standards; D000328:Adult; D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods*; D016208:Databases, Factual / Q000592:standards; D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups / Q000592:standards; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000379:methods*; D018579:Patient Selection; D012042:Registries; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012107:Research Design; D012494:Sampling Studies; D013222:State Medicine; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D006113:United Kingdom