The role of diagnostic inconsistency in changing rates of occurrence for coronary heart disease.

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Serval ID
serval:BIB_DBC0601C94A2
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Collection
Publications
Title
The role of diagnostic inconsistency in changing rates of occurrence for coronary heart disease.
Journal
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
Author(s)
Burnand Bernard, Feinstein Alvan R.
ISSN
0895-4356 (Print)
ISSN-L
0895-4356
Publication state
Published
Issued date
1992
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
45
Number
9
Pages
929-940
Language
english
Abstract
The ante-mortem (in vivo) and post-mortem diagnoses of coronary heart disease (CHD) were compared in necropsies at a university hospital for 1965, 1975, and 1985. The secular trends showed gradually rising proportions in both true positive and false negative ante-mortem diagnoses. Both types of change in diagnostic error would progressively lower the counted numbers of CHD in official vital statistics. With suitable statistical corrections, the occurrence rates of CHD in Connecticut became much higher and showed less dramatic trends in secular decline. The results indicate that major improvements in accuracy are needed before vital statistics data are accepted at face value and analyzed for biologic explanations of the changing numbers.
Keywords
Adult, Age Factors, Aged, Autopsy, Connecticut/epidemiology, Coronary Disease/diagnosis, Coronary Disease/epidemiology, False Negative Reactions, False Positive Reactions, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Predictive Value of Tests, Retrospective Studies, Selection Bias, Sex Factors
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Web of science
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