Validity of myocardial infarction diagnoses in administrative databases: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Though administrative databases are increasingly being used for research related to myocardial infarction (MI), the validity of MI diagnoses in these databases has never been synthesized on a large scale.

Objective

To conduct the first systematic review of studies reporting on the validity of diagnostic codes for identifying MI in administrative data.

Methods

MEDLINE and EMBASE were searched (inception to November 2010) for studies: (a) Using administrative data to identify MI; or (b) Evaluating the validity of MI codes in administrative data; and (c) Reporting validation statistics (sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), negative predictive value, or Kappa scores) for MI, or data sufficient for their calculation. Additonal articles were

SUBMITTER: McCormick N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3969323 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature