Identifying cases of spinal cord injury or disease in a primary care electronic medical record database.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To identify cases of spinal cord injury or disease (SCI/D) in an Ontario database of primary care electronic medical records (EMR).

Design

A reference standard of cases of chronic SCI/D was established via manual review of EMRs; this reference standard was used to evaluate potential case identification algorithms for use in the same database.

Setting

Electronic Medical Records Primary Care (EMRPC) Database, Ontario, Canada.

Participants

A sample of 48,000 adult patients was randomly selected from 213,887 eligible patients in the EMRPC database.

Interventions

N/A.

Main outcome measure(s)

Candidate algorithms were evaluated using sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), negative predictive value (NPV), and F-score.

Res

SUBMITTER: Shepherd J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8604482 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature