Identifying care-home residents in routine healthcare datasets: a diagnostic test accuracy study of five methods.

ABSTRACT:

Background

there is no established method to identify care-home residents in routine healthcare datasets. Methods matching patient's addresses to known care-home addresses have been proposed in the UK, but few have been formally evaluated.

Study design

prospective diagnostic test accuracy study.

Methods

four independent samples of 5,000 addresses from Community Health Index (CHI) population registers were sampled for two NHS Scotland Health Boards on 1 April 2017, with one sample of adults aged ≥65 years and one of all residents. To derive the reference standard, all 20,000 addresses were manually adjudicated as 'care-home address' or not. The performance of five methods (NHS Scotland assigned CHI Institution Flag, exact address matching, postcode matching, Phonics an

SUBMITTER: Burton JK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6322499 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature