Identification of heart failure hospitalization from NHS Digital data : comparison with expert adjudication

© 2024 The Authors. ESC Heart Failure published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of European Society of Cardiology..

AIMS: Population-wide, person-level, linked electronic health record data are increasingly used to estimate epidemiology, guide resource allocation, and identify events in clinical trials. The accuracy of data from NHS Digital (now part of NHS England) for identifying hospitalization for heart failure (HHF), a key HF standard, is not clear. This study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of NHS Digital data for identifying HHF.

METHODS AND RESULTS: Patients experiencing at least one HHF, as determined by NHS Digital data, and age- and sex-matched patients not experiencing HHF, were identified from a prospective cohort study and underwent expert adjudication. Three code sets commonly used to identify HHF were applied to the data and compared with expert adjudication (I50: International Classification of Diseases-10 codes beginning I50; OIS: Clinical Commissioning Groups Outcomes Indicator Set; and NICOR: National Institute for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research, used as the basis for the National Heart Failure Audit in England and Wales). Five hundred four patients underwent expert adjudication, of which 10 (2%) were adjudicated to have experienced HHF. Specificity was high across all three code sets in the first diagnosis position {I50: 96.2% [95% confidence interval (CI) 94.1-97.7%]; NICOR: 93.3% [CI 90.8-95.4%]; OIS: 95.6% [CI 93.3-97.2%]} but decreased substantially as the number of diagnosis positions expanded. Sensitivity [40.0% (CI 12.2-73.8%)] and positive predictive value (PPV) [highest with I50: 17.4% (CI 8.1-33.6%)] were low in the first diagnosis position for all coding sets. PPV was higher for the National Heart Failure Audit criteria, albeit modestly [36.4% (CI 16.6-62.2%)].

CONCLUSIONS: NHS Digital data were not able to accurately identify HHF and should not be used in isolation for this purpose.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11

Enthalten in:

ESC heart failure - 11(2024), 2 vom: 28. März, Seite 1022-1029

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Soltani, Fardad [VerfasserIn]
Bradley, Joshua [VerfasserIn]
Bonandi, Antonio [VerfasserIn]
Black, Nicholas [VerfasserIn]
Farrant, John P [VerfasserIn]
Pailing, Adam [VerfasserIn]
Orsborne, Christopher [VerfasserIn]
Williams, Simon G [VerfasserIn]
Schelbert, Erik B [VerfasserIn]
Dodd, Susanna [VerfasserIn]
Williams, Richard [VerfasserIn]
Peek, Niels [VerfasserIn]
Schmitt, Matthias [VerfasserIn]
McDonagh, Theresa [VerfasserIn]
Miller, Christopher A [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Heart failure
Hospitalization for heart failure
Journal Article
NHS Digital

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Date Completed 28.03.2024

Date Revised 29.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/ehf2.14669

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM367234858