Buckley CM, Kearney PM, Ali F, Bhuachalla CN, Casey C, Roberts G, Perry IJ, Bradley CP

2013

April

BMC Research Notes

Concordance studies between hospital discharge data and medical records for the recording of lower extremity amputation and diabetes in the Republic of Ireland.

Validated

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Hospital discharge data have been used to study trends in Lower Extremity Amputation (LEA) rates in people with and without diabetes. The aim of this study was to assess the reliability of routine hospital discharge data in the Republic of Ireland (RoI) for this purpose by determining the level of agreement between hospital discharge data and medical records for both the occurrence of LEA and diagnosis of diabetes.

10.1186/1756-0500-6-148