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Table 4 Agreement between client surveys and electronic records

From: Electronic immunization data collection systems: application of an evaluation framework

 

APH (n = 158)

NRPH (n = 186)

Data element

# of discordant pairs

Percent disagreement†

95% CI‡

# of discordant pairs

Percent disagreement†

95% CI‡

Last name

1

0.6

0.0, 3.5

0*

0

--

First name

2

1.3

0.2,4.6

3

1.7

0.3, 4.8

Sex

0

0

--

0

0

--

Date of birth

0

0

--

7

3.9

1.6, 8.1

Postal code

11

7.3

3.6, 13.0

10

5.8

2.8, 10.6

Anatomical site of vaccination

2

1.3

0.2, 4.7

1

0.6

0.0, 3.1

  1. †Denominators varied as a result of blank fields in client surveys or electronic records.
  2. ‡Calculated using a Poisson distribution because the events were rare.
  3. *While reflecting essentially the same name, 12 records contained surnames in which the spelling was not identical to the corresponding survey.