Journal article
Validity of Physician Billing Claims to Identify Deceased Organ Donors in Large Healthcare Databases
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: We evaluated the validity of physician billing claims to identify deceased organ donors in large provincial healthcare databases.
METHODS: We conducted a population-based retrospective validation study of all deceased donors in Ontario, Canada from 2006 to 2011 (n = 988). We included all registered deaths during the same period (n = 458,074). Our main outcome measures included sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and …
Authors
Li AH-T; Kim SJ; Rangrej J; Scales DC; Shariff S; Redelmeier DA; Knoll G; Young A; Garg AX
Journal
PLOS ONE, Vol. 8, No. 8,
Publisher
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0070825
ISSN
1932-6203