Kidney Stone Prevalence Based on Self-Report and Electronic Health Records: Insight into the Prevalence of Active Medical Care for Kidney Stones.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare rates of patient-reported kidney stone disease to Electronic Health Records (EHR) kidney stone diagnosis using a common dataset to evaluate for socio-demographic differences, including between those with and without active care.

Methods

From the All of Us research database, we identified 21,687 adult participants with both patient-reported and EHR data. We compared differences in age, sex, race, education, employment status and healthcare access between patients with self-reported kidney stone history without EHR data to those with EHR-based diagnoses.

Results

In this population, the self-reported prevalence of kidney stones was 8.6% overall (n = 1877), including 4.6% (n = 1004) who had self-reported diagnoses but no EHR data. Among those with sel

SUBMITTER: Forbes CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10038847 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature