Monique F Kilkenny1,2, Joosup Kim1,2, Nadine E Andrew1,3, Vijaya Sundararajan4, Amanda G Thrift1, Judith M Katzenellenbogen5,6, Felicity Flack7, Melina Gattellari8, James H Boyd7, Phil Anderson9,10, Natasha Lannin4, Mark Sipthorp11, Ying Chen11, Trisha Johnston12, Craig S Anderson13,14, Sandy Middleton15, Geoffrey A Donnan2, Dominique A Cadilhac1,2. 1. School of Clinical Sciences at Monash Health, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC. 2. Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Melbourne, VIC. 3. Monash University, Melbourne, VIC. 4. La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC. 5. University of Western Australia, Perth, WA. 6. Telethon Kids Institute, Perth, WA. 7. Centre for Data Linkage, Population Health Research Network, Curtin University, Perth, WA. 8. Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, Sydney, NSW. 9. Data Linkage Unit, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Canberra, ACT. 10. University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT. 11. Centre for Victorian Data Linkage, Department of Health and Human Services, Melbourne, VIC. 12. Queensland Department of Health, Brisbane, QLD. 13. The George Institute for Global Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW. 14. Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, NSW. 15. Nursing Research Institute, St Vincent's Health Australia (Sydney) and Australian Catholic University, Sydney, NSW.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To determine the feasibility of linking data from the Australian Stroke Clinical Registry (AuSCR), the National Death Index (NDI), and state-managed databases for hospital admissions and emergency presentations; to evaluate data completeness and concordance between datasets for common variables. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS: Cohort design; probabilistic/deterministic data linkage of merged records for patients treated in hospital for stroke or transient ischaemic attack from New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, and Western Australia. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Descriptive statistics for data matching success; concordance of demographic variables common to linked databases; sensitivity and specificity of AuSCR in-hospital death data for predicting NDI registrations. RESULTS: Data for 16 214 patients registered in the AuSCR during 2009-2013 were linked with one or more state datasets: 15 482 matches (95%) with hospital admissions data, and 12 902 matches (80%) with emergency department presentations data were made. Concordance of AuSCR and hospital admissions data exceeded 99% for sex, age, in-hospital death (each κ = 0.99), and Indigenous status (κ = 0.83). Of 1498 registrants identified in the AuSCR as dying in hospital, 1440 (96%) were also recorded by the NDI as dying in hospital. In-hospital death in AuSCR data had 98.7% sensitivity and 99.6% specificity for predicting in-hospital death in the NDI. CONCLUSION: We report the first linkage of data from an Australian national clinical quality disease registry with routinely collected data from several national and state government health datasets. Data linkage enriches the clinical registry dataset and provides additional information beyond that for the acute care setting and quality of life at follow-up, allowing clinical outcomes for people with stroke (mortality and hospital contacts) to be more comprehensively assessed.
OBJECTIVES: To determine the feasibility of linking data from the Australian Stroke Clinical Registry (AuSCR), the National Death Index (NDI), and state-managed databases for hospital admissions and emergency presentations; to evaluate data completeness and concordance between datasets for common variables. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS: Cohort design; probabilistic/deterministic data linkage of merged records for patients treated in hospital for stroke or transient ischaemic attack from New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, and Western Australia. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Descriptive statistics for data matching success; concordance of demographic variables common to linked databases; sensitivity and specificity of AuSCR in-hospital death data for predicting NDI registrations. RESULTS: Data for 16 214 patients registered in the AuSCR during 2009-2013 were linked with one or more state datasets: 15 482 matches (95%) with hospital admissions data, and 12 902 matches (80%) with emergency department presentations data were made. Concordance of AuSCR and hospital admissions data exceeded 99% for sex, age, in-hospital death (each κ = 0.99), and Indigenous status (κ = 0.83). Of 1498 registrants identified in the AuSCR as dying in hospital, 1440 (96%) were also recorded by the NDI as dying in hospital. In-hospital death in AuSCR data had 98.7% sensitivity and 99.6% specificity for predicting in-hospital death in the NDI. CONCLUSION: We report the first linkage of data from an Australian national clinical quality disease registry with routinely collected data from several national and state government health datasets. Data linkage enriches the clinical registry dataset and provides additional information beyond that for the acute care setting and quality of life at follow-up, allowing clinical outcomes for people with stroke (mortality and hospital contacts) to be more comprehensively assessed.
Authors: Amminadab L Eliakundu; Dominique A Cadilhac; Joosup Kim; Monique F Kilkenny; Kathleen L Bagot; Emily Andrew; Shelley Cox; Christopher F Bladin; Michael Stephenson; Lauren Pesavento; Lauren Sanders; Ben Clissold; Henry Ma; Karen Smith Journal: J Am Coll Emerg Physicians Open Date: 2022-07-01
Authors: N E Andrew; J Kim; D A Cadilhac; V Sundararajan; A G Thrift; L Churilov; N A Lannin; M Nelson; V Srikanth; M F Kilkenny Journal: Int J Popul Data Sci Date: 2019-08-05