Validation of anaemia, haemorrhage and blood disorder reporting in hospital data in New South Wales, Australia.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Hospital data are a useful resource for studying pregnancy complications, including bleeding-related conditions, however, the reliability of these data is unclear. This study aims to examine reliability of reporting of bleeding-related conditions, including anaemia, obstetric haemorrhage and blood disorders, and procedures, such as blood transfusion and hysterectomy, in coded hospital records compared with obstetric data from two large tertiary hospitals in New South Wales.

Results

There were 36,051 births between 2011 and 2015 included in the analysis. Anaemia and blood disorders were poorly reported in the hospital data, with sensitivity ranging from 2.5% to 24.8% (positive predictive value (PPV) 12.0-82.6%). Reporting of postpartum haemorrhage, transfusion and h

SUBMITTER: Baldwin HJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8094525 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature