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Validation of A ustralian data in the A ustralasian V ascular A udit
Author(s) -
Beiles Charles Barry,
Bourke Bernie M.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
anz journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.426
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 1445-1433
DOI - 10.1111/ans.12760
Subject(s) - medicine , audit , data quality , data collection , sample (material) , statistics , accounting , operations management , business , metric (unit) , chemistry , mathematics , chromatography , economics
Background Accuracy of data is important in any clinical audit. It is necessary to determine how complete the dataset is as well as the accuracy of the data that have been entered. The A ustralasian V ascular A udit has been operational for 4 years and a data validation process has been undertaken. Method An independent data source is available, which is collected by the A ustralian I nstitute of H ealth and W elfare. This collects all public and private hospital data and is available for interrogation. Similarly, private‐only data are available from the Medicare website. This has been compared with the A ustralasian V ascular A udit dataset to establish completeness of data collection. Quality of data collected has been verified by comparing accuracy of data fields with that present in patient records in a 5% random sample. Results For the 2 years studied, there was a 63% capture rate in A ustralia for all patients. In the private sector, only 50% of patients were captured with a significant decrease noted in 2013. The quality of data entered had a 2.6% error rate.Conclusion There is a need to increase compliance with vascular audit in A ustralia and data accuracy is acceptable but could be improved.