Agreement between upper respiratory diagnoses from self‐report questionnaires and medical records in an occupational health setting

Abstract

The PPV of self-reported diagnoses demonstrates only modest value in predicting physician diagnoses, although high NPVs suggest benefit in ruling out disease. In subgroups selected for their higher disease prevalence, self-reported diagnoses may be considerably more useful.

Agreement between Self-Reported and Confirmed Cancer Diagnoses in New York City Firefighters and EMS Workers, 2001–2011

“…1,2 The Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) previously reported on the agreement between medical records and self-reported physician-diagnosed lower and upper airways disease. 3,4 Others assessed the validity of self-reported physician cancer diagnoses by reviewing medical records and health registries in specific cohorts, such as an elderly French population and female California teachers, and national population-based studies from the United States and Australia. The sensitivity of self-report for cancer has been shown to vary widely depending on the population surveyed and the cancer site.…”

The impact of exercise training on the lipid peroxidation metabolomic profile and respiratory infection risk in older adults

“…Using a symptom diary, based on the widely used Jackson et al criteria (Jackson et al., 1958), allowed a closer follow‐up. Furthermore, in subpopulations with higher disease prevalence, self‐reported diagnosis of RIs was shown to have a considerable agreement with physician diagnosis (Weakley et al., 2014). Loss of compliance with the respiratory symptoms diary in this study, particularly in the CG, might be linked with the study duration and asymmetry of intervention visits between groups.…”

Assembling the Career Firefighter Health Study cohort: A methods overview

“…We developed the web‐based survey instrument for the Career Firefighter Health Study based on surveys regularly completed by FDNY firefighters during routine medical monitoring visits, since October 2001 26–28 . The survey covers demographic information as well as important health topics that affect firefighters' health and safety, such as physical and mental health symptoms and doctor diagnoses, work exposures, and tobacco and alcohol use 29–31 . The development process involved reviewing the FDNY survey and identifying questions that needed to be included for comparability to information available for the FDNY cohort, which, in addition to survey data, incorporates information from employment sources (e.g., race) or verified diagnoses and dates with medical records.…”