Validation of Living Donor Nephrectomy Codes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Use of administrative data for outcomes assessment in living kidney donors is increasing given the rarity of complications and challenges with loss to follow-up.

Objective

To assess the validity of living donor nephrectomy in health care administrative databases compared with the reference standard of manual chart review.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

5 major transplant centers in Ontario, Canada.

Patients

Living kidney donors between 2003 and 2010.

Measurements

Sensitivity and positive predictive value (PPV).

Methods

Using administrative databases, we conducted a retrospective study to determine the validity of diagnostic and procedural codes for living donor nephrectomies. The reference standard was living donor ne

SUBMITTER: Lam NN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5896849 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature