The Rigorous Work of Evaluating Consistency and Accuracy in Electronic Health Record Data

Colombian Ocular Infectious Epidemiology Study (COIES): Ocular Toxoplasmosis Incidence and Sociodemographic Characterization, 2015-2019

“…Also, Toxoplasmosis diagnosis was determined by ICD-10 codes. Since we do not have access to clinical charts and previous studies based in SISPRO had determined that the concordance rate of the database using ICD-10 with medical records up to 83.4%, we assumed that Toxoplasmosis diagnosis was made by clinical and laboratory findings, and the diagnosis of OT was made by ophthalmic detection of retinochoroiditis and laboratory confirmation (Informe Quincenal Epidemiológico Nacional, 2013;McKay et al, 2021;Singh and Woodward, 2021). This bias control confers confidence in the epidemiologic description of our data.…”

Colombian Ocular Infectious Epidemiology Study (COIES): Herpes Zoster Ophthalmicus prevalence and sociodemographic characterization, 2015-2019

“…Additionally, the B02.3 ICD-10 code is not commonly used by health personnel but by ophthalmologists, and in big data uveitis studies, ICD-10 has demonstrated acceptable accuracy and a low error rate. Also, SISPRO-based studies using ICD-10 have shown 83.4% of agreement with the medical record (Informe Quincenal Epidemiológico Nacional, 2013;McKay et al, 2021;Singh and Woodward, 2021). That confers security to perform the epidemiological description of this article.…”