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Table 2 Evaluation of four body systems

From: Validation of computerized diagnostic information in a clinical database from a national equine clinic network

  

Joints

Skin and Hooves

Respiration

Skeleton

Number of records

System diagnosis present in both VCR and CCR

114

27

24

25

 

System diagnosis in CCR, not in VCR

15

4

1

2

 

System diagnosis in VCR, not in CCR

11

9

10

9

 

No diagnosis for this system in either VCR or CCR

256

356

361

360

Tests

Completeness (%)1

91

75

71

74

 

95% CI for Completeness2

85,96

58,88

53,85

56,87

 

Specificity (%)3

95

99

98

99

 

Correctness (%)4

88

87

96

93

 

Prevalence in VCR (%)

32

9

9

9

 

Prevalence in CCR (%)

33

8

6

7

  1. Number of records for four body systems in the computerized clinical record (CCR) and the veterinary clinical record (VCR) and test results evaluating the ability of the CCR to accurately reflect the VCR (assuming the VCR is gold standard) in a sample of visits (n = 396) at 18 equine clinics in Sweden in 2002.
  2. 1 defined as the proportion of problems in the veterinary clinical records (which were considered the gold standard) that were recorded in the database
  3. 2 exact confidence interval
  4. 3 95% CI varied between 91,97 to 98,100
  5. 4 defined as the proportion of recorded disease events in the database that truly occurred according to the veterinary clinical record (i.e. the gold standard)