Validation of adult asthma case definitions for primary care sentinel surveillance.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Most asthma diagnoses and patient care take place in primary care settings. Electronic medical records (EMRs) offer an opportunity to utilize technology to improve asthma diagnosis and care. The purpose of this study was to create and validate separate case definitions for suspected and confirmed asthma in primary care EMRs, to enable surveillance, benchmarking, and quality improvement in primary care settings. The objective of this study was to develop a case definition for suspected and confirmed asthma for use in a primary care sentinel surveillance system.

Methods

A single chart abstractor conducted a manual audit of 776 randomly selected patient charts from an academic primary care practice EMR in Kingston, Ontario. Following the single chart abstractor class

SUBMITTER: Moloney M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10644606 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature