Journal article
Good agreement between self-report and centralized hospitalizations data for arthritis-related surgeries
L Parkinson, C Curryer, A Gibberd, M Cunich, JE Byles
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC | Published : 2013
Abstract
Objectives: To examine the level of agreement between self-reported and hospital administration records of arthritis-related surgeries for two large samples of community-dwelling older women in Australia, born between 1921-1926 and 1946-1951. Study Design and Setting: Self-report survey data from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health was linked to inpatient hospital data from the New South Wales Admitted Patient Data Collection. Levels of agreement were compared using Cohen's kappa, sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values. Reasons for false positives were examined. Results: This study found good agreement (kappa >0.70; sensitivity and specificity >..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The authors are grateful to the Australian Government Department of Health and Aging for funding the data collection, University of Newcastle for Fellowship Support Grant funding (GO190425) of the analyses, and to the women who provided the survey data. They also wish to thank The Screening and Diagnostic Test Evaluation Program for supporting Dr. M.C.'s contribution (National Health and Medical Research Council Program Grant IDs 402764 and 633003).