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Where have the hospital delivered babies gone?

Where have the hospital delivered babies gone?. Factors associated with hospital births not recoded in the NSW Admitted Patient Data collection. The Faculty of Health Sciences. Mary Lam | Dr. Contents. Background Methods Record Linkage Results Discussions and Conclusions.

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Where have the hospital delivered babies gone?

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  1. Where have the hospital delivered babies gone? Factors associated with hospital births not recoded in the NSW Admitted Patient Data collection The Faculty of Health Sciences Mary Lam | Dr

  2. Contents • Background • Methods • Record Linkage • Results • Discussions and Conclusions Picture source:http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/stories/spacescience/

  3. Background Routinely collected hospital admission data • Useful source for secondary data analysis (e.g. Chen et al. 2010, Lain et al. 2009, Roberts et al. 2008, Lu et al. 2007) • Trends • Epidemiology • Service utilisation • Data Quality • Non-inclusion of valid cases • A potential source of bias for subsequent analysis (Ford et al. 2006) • Validation studies to understand dataset and its quality • Record linkage of similar datasets

  4. Aims and Methods Aims: • Examine factors that contribute to hospital birth records not being recorded in the APDC dataset Methods: • Datasets • NSW Admitted Patients Data Collection (APDC) • NSW Midwives Data Collection (MDC) • NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages (RBDM)

  5. Methods Record Linkage: • Conducted by the NSW Centre for Health Record Linkage (CHeReL) • Births recorded in the APDC and MDC datasets for the calendar year 2005 were used for analysis • Births registered in the NSW RBDM for the same period were used as validation Statistical Analysis: • Bivariate analysis: • χ2 Analysis • Logistic regression analyses: • Backward model reduction

  6. Record Linkage at CHeReL Step 1: Source: Guide to Health Record Linkage Service, http://www.cherel.org.au/HowCHeReLworks.pdf

  7. Record Linkage at CHeReL Step 2: Source: Guide to Health Record Linkage Service, http://www.cherel.org.au/HowCHeReLworks.pdf

  8. Record Linkage at CHeReL Step 3: Source: Guide to Health Record Linkage Service, http://www.cherel.org.au/HowCHeReLworks.pdf

  9. Record Linkage at CHeReL Step 4: Source: Guide to Health Record Linkage Service, http://www.cherel.org.au/HowCHeReLworks.pdf

  10. Record Linkage at CHeReL Step 5: Source: Guide to Health Record Linkage Service, http://www.cherel.org.au/HowCHeReLworks.pdf

  11. Results APDC and MDC record counts Unmatched Matched

  12. Results Bi-variates Analyses – Matched and Unmatched MDC records

  13. Results Logistic Regression – Final model (α = 0.001)

  14. Results • Level of hospital • When compare to Levels 1-3 hospitals (local, small isolated, small metropolitan hospitals) • Levels 4-6 hospitals (large metropolitan, tertiary hospitals) – 70% reduction of odd in baby records not included in APDC • Private hospital – 30 % reduction of odd in baby records not included in APDC • Baby separation status and gestational age • Records from babies who were stillborn, died had an increased odd to be not included in APDC • Records from babies who had lower than normal gestation age had an increased odd to be not included in APDC

  15. Discussions • Significant factors associated with missing APDC records • Levels 1- 3 hospitals more likely to have missed APDC records • Lack of resources? • Gestational age - Babies of less than 37 weeks - more likely to be not included • Likely not to survived? - Thus no recode in APDC?

  16. Conclusions • MDC is better in recording birth • More records captured • Less duplication • For Hospital births less likely to be affected by: • Hospital level • Survival status of the baby • APDC – overall quality is good • Able to provide information on • Procedure used • Co-morbidities • Longitudinal aspect of hospitalisation Picture source:http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/stories/spacescience/

  17. References: Chen JS, Roberts CL, Ford JB, Taylor LK, Simpson JM (2010), ‘Cross-sectional reporting of previous Casarean birth was validated using longitudinal linked data’, Journal of clinical Epidemiology, vol.63, pp.672-678. Ford JB, Roberts C, Taylor LK (2006), ‘Characteristics of unmatched maternal and baby records in linked birth records and hospital discharge data’, Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, vol.20, pp.329-337.  Lain SJ, Algert CS, Tasevski V, Morris JM, Roberts CL (2009), ‘Record linkage to obtain birth outcomes for the evaluation of screening biomarkers in pregnancy: a feasibility study’, BMC Medical Research Metholology, vol. 9:48. Lu TH, Walker SM, Anderson RN, McKenzieK, Bjorkenstam C, Hou WH (2007), ‘The proportion of injury deaths with unspecified external cause codes-- a comparison of Australia, Sweden, Taiwan and the United States’, Injury Prevention, vol.13, pp.276-281. Roberts CL, Bell JC, Ford JB, Hadfield RM, Algert CS, Morris JM (2008), ‘The accuracy of reporting of the hypertensive disorders of pregnancy in population health data’, Hypertension in Pregnancy, vol 27, pp.285-297.

  18. Thank you Picture source:http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2007/12/07/panda-watch/

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