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01-08-2016 | Original Contributions

Validation of Obesity Surgery Data in the Swedish National Patient Registry and Scandinavian Obesity Registry (SOReg)

Authors: Wenjing Tao, Dag Holmberg, Erik Näslund, Ingmar Näslund, Fredrik Mattsson, Jesper Lagergren, Rickard Ljung

Published in: Obesity Surgery | Issue 8/2016

Abstract

Background and Aim

Swedish health registries are common sources of data for studies on the effects of obesity surgery, and there is a need to assess the quality of data in these registries. The aim of this study was to validate the registration of obesity surgery in the National Patient Registry (NPR) and the Scandinavian Obesity Surgery Registry (SOReg).

Method

We randomly selected 962 out of 8501 registrations of obesity surgery in 2011 from the NPR and SOReg. Registered surgical procedures in the NPR and SOReg were compared to the medical records, and concordance was analyzed by calculating positive predictive value (PPV) with 95 % confidence interval (CI).

Results

We received 938 (98 %) medical records for manual review. The overall PPV for obesity surgery was high in the NPR (PPV 97.0; 95 % CI 95.6–98.4) and even higher in SOReg (PPV 99.7; 95 % CI 99.3–100). Accuracy was higher for gastric bypass surgery than for other types of obesity surgery. Registrations that were misclassified as obesity surgery (n = 44) included reoperations due to complications or reconstruction to normal anatomy after previous obesity surgery (n = 11) and endoscopic procedures (n = 10).

Conclusion

Obesity surgery registrations in the NPR and SOReg have high accuracy and are reliable sources of data to identify patients having undergone obesity surgery. When it is of importance to distinguish between specific surgical procedures, non-gastric bypass surgeries in the NPR should ideally be supplemented with data from other sources.

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Title: Validation of Obesity Surgery Data in the Swedish National Patient Registry and Scandinavian Obesity Registry (SOReg)
Authors: Wenjing Tao
Dag Holmberg
Erik Näslund
Ingmar Näslund
Fredrik Mattsson
Jesper Lagergren
Rickard Ljung
Publication date: 01-08-2016
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Obesity Surgery / Issue 8/2016
Print ISSN: 0960-8923
Electronic ISSN: 1708-0428
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11695-015-1994-y

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Validation of Obesity Surgery Data in the Swedish National Patient Registry and Scandinavian Obesity Registry (SOReg)

Abstract

Background and Aim

Method

Results

Conclusion

At a glance: The STEP trials

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Abstract

Background and Aim

Method

Results

Conclusion

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