Developing an algorithm to identify people with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) using administrative data.

ABSTRACT:

Background

An important prerequisite for the Chronic Care Model is to be able to identify, in a valid, simple and inexpensive way, the population with a chronic condition that needs proactive and planned care. We investigated if a set of administrative data could be used to identify patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in a Danish population.

Methods

Seven general practices were asked to identify patients with known Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in their practices. For the 266 patients (population A), we used administrative data on hospital admissions for lung-related diagnoses, redeemed prescriptions for lung-diseases drugs and lung- function tests combined to develop an algorithm that identified the highest proportion of patients with Chronic Obstruc

SUBMITTER: Smidth M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3444358 | biostudies-literature | 2012 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature