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ArticleJournal of vascular surgery2014

The impact of the present on admission indicator on the accuracy of administrative data for carotid endarterectomy and stenting.

Margriet Fokkema, Rob Hurks, Thomas Curran, Rodney P Bensley, Allen D Hamdan, Mark C Wyers, Frans L Moll, Marc L Schermerhorn

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Article in Journal of vascular surgery, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
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8 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Margriet FokkemaDivision of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.
Rob HurksDepartment of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Thomas CurranDivision of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.
Rodney P BensleyDivision of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.
Allen D HamdanDivision of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.
Mark C WyersDivision of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.
Frans L MollDepartment of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Marc L SchermerhornDivision of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass. Electronic address: mscherme@bidymc.harvard.edu.
Hadassah Medical Center · ILUniversity Medical Center Utrecht · NLBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · US

Funding

HARVARD-LONGWOOD RESEARCH TRAINING IN VASCULAR SURGERYT32HL007734 · NHLBI · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI FERRAN, CHRISTIANE, LOGERFO, FRANK W · 1993 to 2023
$10.5M
NHLBI NIH HHS HL007734NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL007734
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundAdministrative data are often hampered by coding errors, absent data, and the difficulty of distinguishing pre-existing conditions from perioperative complications. We evaluated whether the introduction of the present on admission (POA) indicator improved outcome analysis of carotid endarterectomy (CEA) and carotid angioplasty and stenting (CAS) using administrative data.

methodsState inpatient databases from California (2005-2008), New York (2008), and New Jersey (2008) were used to identify patients undergoing CAS and CEA. We first analyzed morbidity data without the POA indicator, using International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision complication codes (eg, 997.02, iatrogenic cerebrovascular infarction or hemorrhage, postoperative stroke) and diagnosis codes (eg, 433.11, occlusion and stenosis of the carotid artery with cerebral infarction). Then, we applied the POA indicator to both diagnosis and complication codes and calculated the proportion of events that were labeled POA. Symptom status and perioperative stroke rate were compared using these coding approaches.

resultsWe identified 21,639 patients who underwent CEA and 3688 patients who underwent CAS. Without the POA indicator, the complication code for stroke indicated a postoperative stroke rate of 1.4% for CEA and 2.4% for CAS. After applying the POA indicator, 54% (CEA) and 62% (CAS) of these strokes were labeled POA. These POA strokes were either preoperative or intraoperative events. Proportion of symptomatic patients ranged from 7% to 16% for CEA and from 5% to 22% for CAS. Perioperative stroke rate was the lowest in the POA method (1.1% CEA, 1.8% CAS) compared with two other methods without POA information (1.4% and 9.5% CEA and 2.4% and 16.4% CAS). Kappa indicated a poor (0.2) to fair (0.7) agreement between these approaches.

conclusionsAdministrative data has known limitations for assignment of symptom status and nonfatal perioperative outcomes. Given the uncertain timing of POA events as preoperative vs intraoperative and its apparent underestimation of the perioperative stroke rate, the use of administrative data even with the POA indicator for symptom status and non-fatal outcomes after CEA and CAS is hazardous.

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Endarterectomy, CarotidInternational Classification of DiseasesPatient AdmissionPreexisting Condition CoverageStentsAngioplastyAsymptomatic DiseasesCarotid Artery DiseasesComorbidityDatabases, FactualHumansPatient DischargeReproducibility of ResultsStrokeTreatment OutcomeUnited States

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PMID23993438
PMCPMC3874266
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