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The accuracy of case definitions for the identification of SLE patients in administrative healthcare databases is variable and this should be considered when comparing results across studies. This variability may also be used to advantage in different study designs depending on the relative importance of sensitivity and specificity for identifying the population of interest to the research question.
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Hanly et al. (2014) studied this question.
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