Agreement of Ocular Symptom Reporting Between Patient-Reported Outcomes and Medical Records.
Agreement of Ocular Symptom Reporting Between Patient-Reported Outcomes and Medical Records.
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DOI:
10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2016.5551
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发表时间:
2017-03-01
影响因子:
8.1
通讯作者:
Woodward MA
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作者:
Valikodath NG;Newman-Casey PA;Lee PP;Musch DC;Niziol LM;Woodward MA
Accurate documentation of patient symptoms in the electronic medical record (MR) is important for high quality patient care. To explore inconsistencies between patient self-report on an eye symptom questionnaire (ESQ) and documentation in the MR. Observational study. Comprehensive ophthalmology and cornea clinics at an academic institution. Convenience sample of 192 consecutive, eligible patients, of whom 30 declined participation. Concordance of symptoms reported on an ESQ with data recorded in the MR. Agreement of symptom report was analyzed using kappa coefficients and McNemar’s tests. Disagreement was defined as a negative symptom report or no mention of a symptom in the MR for patients who reported moderate to severe symptoms on the ESQ. Logistic regression was used to investigate if patient factors, physician characteristics, or diagnoses were associated with the probability of disagreement for symptoms of blurry vision, eye pain, and eye redness. 162 patients (324 eyes) were included. Subjects were on average 56.6 ± 19.4 years old, 62% female, and 85% Caucasian. At the subject level, 54 of 160 (34%) had discordant reporting of blurry vision between the ESQ and MR. Likewise, documentation was discordant for reporting glare (48%, n=78 of 162), eye pain (27%, n=43 of 162), and eye redness (25%, n=40 of 162) with poor to fair agreement (kappa range = −0.02–0.42). Discordance of symptom reporting was more frequently characterized by positive reporting on the ESQ and lack of documentation in the MR (Holm’s adjusted McNemar’s p <0.03, for seven of eight symptoms except blurry vision p=0.59). Return visits where the patient reported blurry vision on the ESQ had increased odds of not reporting the symptom in the MR, compared to new visits (Holm’s adjusted p=0.045). Symptom reporting was inconsistent between a patient’s self-report on an ESQ and documentation in the MR, with symptoms more frequently recorded on a questionnaire. Our results suggest that documentation of symptoms based on MR data may not provide a comprehensive resource for clinical practice or ‘big data’ research.