Validation of intellectual disability coding through hospital morbidity records using an intellectual disability population-based database in Western Australia.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate how well intellectual disability (ID) can be ascertained using hospital morbidity data compared with a population-based data source.

Design, setting and participants

All children born in 1983-2010 with a hospital admission in the Western Australian Hospital Morbidity Data System (HMDS) were linked with the Western Australian Intellectual Disability Exploring Answers (IDEA) database. The International Classification of Diseases hospital codes consistent with ID were also identified.

Main outcome measures

The characteristics of those children identified with ID through either or both sources were investigated.

Results

Of the 488 905 individuals in the study, 10 218 (2.1%) were identified with ID in either IDEA or HMDS with 1435 (14.0%) i

SUBMITTER: Bourke J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5786126 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature