Participation involved completing a standardized questionnaire inquiring about implant status (right breast only, left breast only, both breasts, no implant, or unknown) and implant type (silicone gel, saline, double lumen [consisting of silicone gel and saline], other, and unknown type), and providing signed consent for release of medical records for validation of implant usage and implant type.
22 Medical records for validation of information on the first pregnancy were retrieved from a total of 13 hospitals.
The accuracy of the data for the key variables was ensured by multiple checking, internal (within the database) and external (with national and regional death data, and other local sources of birth record data) validation of the data.
Basic privacy issues around search data make accessing individual search records for the purposes of validation unfeasible.
The professional translators from SoLLaT were selected based on their cognate experiences and track record of success in linguistic validation of quality of life or similar instruments.
For each combination, we build a new model on the training data using the union of the genes from the two pathways, and record the validation accuracy of the combination.
It was clear that, despite introducing a specific suspect referral book (other states have no recording system for validation) stricter procedures for the recording of new case validation were required.
Medical record validation of maternally reported history of preeclampsia.
Review of original practice records, validation of specific diagnoses or other more intensive strategies may be needed to supplement the insurance data.
Such a high-sensitive case identification system can be used as a pre-filter to significantly reduce the burden of manual record validation.
Medical record validation of self reported cardiac events was attempted but determined to be unfeasible owing to inability to obtain and assure adequacy of records for all events and deaths (potentially from a cardiac event).
