Is telephone follow-up reliable in maternal and neonatal outcomes surveys in in vitro fertilization?

ABSTRACT:

Background

 Many studies that collect maternal and neonatal outcomes rely on patient self-report phone calls. It is unclear how reliable or accurate these phone call reports are.

Objective

To evaluate the reliability of telephone calls in information collection in IVF.

Study design

The women were interviewed seven days after delivery by a nurse via telephone. The maternal and neonatal outcomes were recorded based on a self-report from one of the spouses. Meanwhile, the standardized electronic hospitalized discharge records were extracted from the hospital medical database. For each case, maternal and neonatal information obtained from telephone interviews and extracted from medical files were compared.

Results

Agreement was classified as "almost perfect, K = 0.

SUBMITTER: Sun L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9396850 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature