PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Alexander L. Brown TI - Inclusion of social problem categories in disease registers DP - 1984 Jun 01 TA - The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners PG - 320--323 VI - 34 IP - 263 4099 - http://bjgp.org/content/34/263/320.short 4100 - http://bjgp.org/content/34/263/320.full SO - J R Coll Gen Pract1984 Jun 01; 34 AB - The reliability of a disease register as a record of the number and type of social problems was investigated in one practice of approximately 12,000 patients. A comparison with a randomly selected sample of the practice population, matched for age and sex, indicated that some social problems were not included. The types of problem concerned, and the reasons why they were not included, are discussed.