Key result
Patient and GP reports lack reported quantitative accuracy for identifying post-CABG hospital admissions.
Why the study?
Accurate long-term data collection on cardiac related events after cardiac surgery is essential, but patient and GP reports may be inaccurate compared to hospital records.
Do patient and GP reports accurately identify hospital admissions following CABG compared to hospital information systems?
Population
Patients discharged following index admission for cardiac bypass surgery
Comparison
Self-completed patient questionnaires and GP reports vs hospital information systems
Design
Observational cohort study
Follow-up
Long term
Authors
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Patient and GP reports for post-CABG admissions require validation; leaves open their reliability versus hospital records in observational research.
Observational
Do patient and GP reports accurately identify hospital admissions following CABG compared to hospital information systems?
This study evaluates the accuracy of patient and GP recall for identifying hospital readmissions after CABG compared to objective hospital records.
Fiona Taylor (2003) conducted an observational in Cardiac bypass surgery (CABG). Reports from patients and their GPs vs. Hospital information systems was evaluated on Sensitivity and specificity for identifying admissions to hospital after discharge. The accuracy of patient and GP reports for identifying hospital admissions after CABG was compared to hospital information systems, but quantitative results are not reported in the abstract.
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