Background The lack of adequate and standardized recording of leading risk factors for morbidity and mortality in medical records have downstream effects on research based on administrative databases.
Real-world data (RWD) bears great promises to improve the quality of care. However, specific infrastructures and methodologies are required to derive robust knowledge and brings innovations to the pat
The global incidence of thyroid cancer (TC) has risen markedly, ranking as the tenth most common malignancy in 2020. Simultaneously, obesity now affects over one billion individuals worldwide, with it
Reliability of HES data; Internal reliability: Intra-class correlation coefficient for each comorbidity; external reliability: Proportion of agreement for the diagnosis of the index cancer between the