Improving accuracy of disease prevalence estimates by combining information from administrative health records and electronic medical records
| dc.contributor.author | Al-Azazi, Saeed | |
| dc.contributor.examiningcommittee | Rabbani, Rasheda (Community Health Sciences) Singer, Alexander (Family Medicine) | en_US |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Lix, Lisa (Community Health Sciences) | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-09-04T13:47:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-09-04T13:47:51Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-08-13 | en_US |
| dc.date.submitted | 2018-08-13T15:23:20Z | en |
| dc.degree.discipline | Community Health Sciences | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Science (M.Sc.) | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Administrative health records (AHRs) and electronic medical records (EMRs) are the two main sources of population-based data for chronic disease surveillance in Canada. Misclassification errors exist in both databases, which can bias estimates of disease prevalence and incidence. The objectives were to evaluate the accuracy of rule-based and probabilistic-based methods to combine error-prone sources using computer simulation and to demonstrate how to use these methods with a numeric example. Four data-combining methods were compared: rule-based ‘OR’ method, rule-based ‘AND’ method, rule-based sensitivity-specificity adjusted (RSSA) method and probabilistic-based sensitivity-specificity adjusted (PSSA) method. The methods were demonstrated using linked AHRs and EMRs to ascertain cases of hypertension. The ‘OR’ and ‘AND’ methods are recommended when there is sufficient overlap between measures of disease status. The RSSA method depends on the choice of sensitivity and specificity estimates. The PSSA method performs well when true prevalence is high and correlations amongst covariates are low. | en_US |
| dc.description.note | October 2018 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/33235 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.rights | open access | en_US |
| dc.subject | Prevalence | en_US |
| dc.subject | Misclassification | en_US |
| dc.subject | Data source | en_US |
| dc.subject | Data-combining methods | en_US |
| dc.title | Improving accuracy of disease prevalence estimates by combining information from administrative health records and electronic medical records | en_US |
| dc.type | master thesis | en_US |