Agreement between maternal report and medical records on use of medications during early pregnancy in New York.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Studies evaluating associations between medication use in pregnancy and birth outcomes rely on various sources of exposure information. We sought to assess agreement between self-reported use of medications during early pregnancy and medication information in prenatal medical records to understand the reliability of each of these information sources.

Methods

We compared self-reported prescription medication use in early pregnancy to medical records from 184 New York women with deliveries in 2018 who participated in the Birth Defects Study To Evaluate Pregnancy exposureS. We assessed medications used chronically and episodically, and medications within 12 therapeutic groups. We calculated agreement using kappa (κ) coefficients, sensitivity, and specificity. We asse

SUBMITTER: Howley MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12836282 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature