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ArticlePloS one2015

Refining hypertension surveillance to account for potentially misclassified cases.

Mingkai Peng, Guanmin Chen, Lisa M Lix, Finlay A McAlister, Karen Tu, Norm R Campbell, Brenda R Hemmelgarn, Lawrence W Svenson, Hude Quan, Hypertension Outcomes Surveillance Team

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Mingkai PengDepartment of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Guanmin ChenDepartment of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Lisa M LixDepartment of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Finlay A McAlisterDepartment of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Karen TuInstitute of Clinical Evaluative Sciences and Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Norm R CampbellDepartment of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Brenda R HemmelgarnDepartment of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Lawrence W SvensonSurveillance and Assessment Branch, Alberta Health, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Hude QuanDepartment of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Hypertension Outcomes Surveillance Team

Funding

Canadian Institutes of Health Research 125977
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Administrative health data have been used in hypertension surveillance using the 1H2P method: the International Classification of Disease (ICD) hypertension diagnosis codes were recorded in at least 1 hospitalization or 2 physician claims within 2 year-period. Accumulation of false positive cases over time using the 1H2P method could result in the overestimation of hypertension prevalence. In this study, we developed and validated a new reclassification method to define hypertension cases using regularized logistic regression with the age, sex, hypertension and comorbidities in physician claims, and diagnosis of hypertension in hospital discharge data as independent variables. A Bayesian method was then used to adjust the prevalence estimated from the reclassification method. We evaluated the hypertension prevalence in data from Alberta, Canada using the currently accepted 1H2P method and these newly developed methods. The reclassification method with Bayesian adjustment produced similar prevalence estimates as the 1H2P method. This supports the continued use of the 1H2P method as a simple and practical way to conduct hypertension surveillance using administrative health data.

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