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Table 2 Accuracy of recording of TKR and death in EHRs

From: Assessing the suitability of general practice electronic health records for clinical prediction model development: a data quality assessment

N = 201,462

TKR

Death

True positives

7854

6304

True negatives

186,937

187,527

False positives

784

3277

False negatives

4621

4354

Sensitivity

63.0%

59.1%

Specificity

99.6%

98.3%

Accuracy

96.7%

96.2%

Proportion of true TKRs with a correctly recorded year of surgery

57.2%

Proportion of true TKRs with a correctly recorded side

3.4%

Proportion of true deaths with a correctly recorded year of death

49.0%

  1. AOANJRR considered gold-standard for TKR data and NDI for death data; “-” represents “N/A”