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Table 1 Measures of validity of type 2 diabetes code (ICPC-2, T90) in a primary care EHR database. Navarra EPIC-InterAct cohort

From: Validity of type 2 diabetes diagnosis in a population-based electronic health record database

 

Gold standard (diagnosis from multiple sources)

Total

Information of EHR

T2DM yes

T2DM no

 

Code T90 yes

(A) TP

True cases correctly identified in EHR

(B) FP

Non-cases wrongly coded in EHR

(A + B)

587

50

637

Code T90 no

(C) FN

True cases not identified in EHR

(D) TN

True non-cases correctly identified in EHR

(C + D)

11

7039

7050

Total

(A + C)

(B + D)

(A + B + C + D)

598

7089

7687

  1. Sensitivity: A/(A + C); specificity: D/(B + D); positive predictive value: A/(A + B); negative predictive value: D/(C + D)