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ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Validation of Algorithms to Identify Acute Myocardial Infarction, Stroke, and Cardiovascular Death in German Health Insurance Data

Katharina Platzbecker1 Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS, Bremen, GermanyORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2075-7978View further author information
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Annemarie Voss1 Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS, Bremen, GermanyView further author information
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Jonas Reinold1 Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS, Bremen, GermanyORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-8266-2574View further author information
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Anne Elbrecht2 Department of Epidemiological Methods and Etiological Research, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS, Bremen, GermanyORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3599-5469View further author information
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Wolfgang Biewener2 Department of Epidemiological Methods and Etiological Research, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS, Bremen, GermanyView further author information
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Daniel Prieto-Alhambra3 Pharmaco- and Device Epidemiology, Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK;4 Department of Medical Informatics, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, NetherlandsORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3950-6346View further author information
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Annika M Jödicke3 Pharmaco- and Device Epidemiology, Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UKORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0000-0110View further author information
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Tania Schink1 Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS, Bremen, GermanyCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 1351-1361 | Received 28 Jun 2022, Accepted 30 Sep 2022, Published online: 10 Nov 2022

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