Validating abortion procedure coding in Canadian administrative databases.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The British Columbia (BC) Ministry of Health collects abortion procedure data in the Medical Services Plan (MSP) physician billings database and in the hospital information Discharge Abstracts Database (DAD). Our study seeks to validate abortion procedure coding in these databases.

Methods

Two randomized controlled trials enrolled a cohort of 1031 women undergoing abortion. The researcher collected database includes both enrollment and follow up chart review data. The study cohort was linked to MSP and DAD data to identify all abortions events captured in the administrative databases. We compared clinical chart data on abortion procedures with health administrative data. We considered a match to occur if an abortion related code was found in administrative data wi

SUBMITTER: Samiedaluie S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4942914 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature