Development and validation of a case identification algorithm for hand trauma patients using health administrative data and the epidemiology of hand trauma in a universal healthcare system.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Our primary objectives were (1) to develop and validate an administrative data algorithm for the identification of hand trauma cases using clinical diagnoses documented in medical records as the reference standard and (2) to estimate the incidence of hand trauma in a universal public healthcare system from 1993 to 2023 using a population-based research cohort constructed using a validated case identification algorithm.

Design

A population-based retrospective validation study.

Setting

Ontario, Canada, from 2022 to 2023 (validation) and from 1993 to 2023 (estimation).

Participants

Our reference standard was the known hand trauma status of 301 patients (N=147 with hand trauma) who presented to an urban tertiary-care hand trauma centre in Toronto, Ontari

SUBMITTER: Wong CR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12706216 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature