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The Validity and Reliability of Characterizing Epilepsy Based on an External Review of Medical Records

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Kang, Bong Su; Cheong, Hae-Kwan; Jung, Ki-Young; Jang, Sang Hyeon; Yoo, Jae Kook; Kim, Dong Wook; Chung, Soo-Eun; Lee, Seo-Young

Issue Date
2013-08
Publisher
Korean Society of Epidemiology
Citation
Epidemiology and health, Vol.35, e2013006
Keywords
의약학ValidityEpilepsyEpidemiologySensitivitySpecificityReliability
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: Our goal is to validate diagnosing and characterizing epilepsy based on a medical record survey by external reviewers.METHODS: We reviewed medical records from 80 patients who received antiepileptic drugs in 2009 at two hospitals. The study consisted of two steps; data abstraction by certified health record administrators and then verification by the investigators. The gold standard was the results of the survey performed by the epileptologists from their own hospital.RESULTS: The specificity was more than 90.0% for diagnosis and activity, and for new-onset seizures. The sensitivity was 97.0% or more for diagnosis and activity and 66.7-75.0% for new-onset epilepsy. This method accurately classified epileptic syndromes in 90.2-92.9% of patients, causes in 85.4-92.7%, and age of onset in 78.0-81.0%. Kappa statistics for inter-rater reliability and test-retest reliability ranged from 0.641-0.975, which means substantial to near-perfect agreement in all items.CONCLUSIONS: Our data suggest that epilepsy can be well identified by external review of medical records. This method may be useful as a basis for large-scale epidemiological research.
ISSN
2092-7193
Language
English
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/10371/91819
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4178/epih/e2013006
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