Self-reported versus health administrative data: implications for assessing chronic illness burden in populations. A cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Various data sources may be used to document the presence of chronic medical conditions. This study examined the agreement between self-reported and health administrative data.

Methods

A randomly selected cohort of participants aged 25-75 years recruited by telephone from the general population of Quebec reported on the presence of 1 or more chronic conditions from a candidate list of 12 conditions: diabetes, hypertension, thyroid disorder, any cardiac disease, cancer diagnosis in the previous 5 years (including melanoma but excluding other skin cancers), asthma, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis or lupus, osteoporosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, intestinal disease and hypercholesterolemia. We also used health administrative data from Quebec's unive

SUBMITTER: Fortin M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5621946 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature