Development and validation of thromboembolism diagnostic algorithms in children with cancer from real-world data.


Journal

Pediatric research
ISSN: 1530-0447
Titre abrégé: Pediatr Res
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0100714

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
22 Feb 2024
Historique:
received: 15 10 2023
accepted: 21 01 2024
revised: 03 01 2024
medline: 23 2 2024
pubmed: 23 2 2024
entrez: 22 2 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

To evaluate the accuracy of diagnostic algorithms developed using the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CA) diagnostic codes and physician billing codes for thromboembolism (TE) from health administrative data compared to chart review diagnoses of TE in children with cancer. Using data linkage between the Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario Network Information System (Ontario pediatric cancer registry) and various administrative data housed at ICES, eight algorithms were developed including a single reference to one of the billing codes, multiple references with varying time intervals, and combinations of various billing codes during primary cancer therapy for the whole cohort and, for early (<04/2002) and later (≥04/2002, solely ICD-10 codes) periods. Reference standard was chart review data from prior studies (from 1990 to 2016) among children (≤19 years) with cancer and radiologically confirmed TE. Records of 2056 patients diagnosed with cancer at two participating sites during study period were reviewed; 112 had radiologically confirmed TE. The algorithm with addition of anticoagulation utilization codes was the best performing algorithm (sensitivity = 0.76;specificity = 0.85). With use of ICD-10 only codes, sensitivity of the same algorithm improved to 0.84 with specificity of 0.80. This study provides a valid approach for ascertaining pediatric TE using real-world data. Research in pediatric thrombosis, especially cancer-related thrombosis, is limited mainly due to small-sized studies. Real-world data provide ready access to large and diverse populations. However, there are no validated algorithms for identifying thrombosis in real-world data for children. An algorithm based on combination of thrombosis and anticoagulation utilization codes had 76% sensitivity and 85% specificity to identify diagnosis of thrombosis in children in administrative data. This study provides a valid approach for ascertaining pediatric thrombosis using real-world data and offers a good avenue to advance pediatric thrombosis research.

Identifiants

pubmed: 38388822
doi: 10.1038/s41390-024-03082-x
pii: 10.1038/s41390-024-03082-x
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Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

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Informations de copyright

© 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to the International Pediatric Research Foundation, Inc.

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Auteurs

Uma Athale (U)

Division of Hematology/Oncology, McMaster Children's Hospital, Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. athaleu@mcmaster.ca.
Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. athaleu@mcmaster.ca.
Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. athaleu@mcmaster.ca.

Jacqueline Halton (J)

Division of Hematology/Oncology, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Pediatrics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Anastasia Gayowsky (A)

ICES, McMaster, University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Anthony K C Chan (AKC)

Division of Hematology/Oncology, McMaster Children's Hospital, Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Pediatrics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Jason D Pole (JD)

Centre for Health Services Research, The University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia.
ICES, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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