Validity of Canadian discharge abstract data for hypertension and diabetes from 2002 to 2013.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Surveillance using coded administrative health data has shown that the prevalence of hypertension and diabetes in Canada increased substantially between 1998 to 2008. These findings require an assumption that the validity of hypertension and diabetes coding is stable over time. We tested this assumption by examining temporal trends in the validity of coding for hypertension and diabetes in the Canadian hospital Discharge Abstract Database.

Methods

We used the Alberta Provincial Project for Outcome Assessment in Coronary Heart Disease (APPROACH) database, a clinical registry, as the reference standard to evaluate the validity of the Discharge Abstract Database in recording hypertension and diabetes in Alberta. The APPROACH database contains data for all Alberta res

SUBMITTER: Jiang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5173472 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature