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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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The Burden of Biopsy-Proven Pediatric Celiac Disease in Ontario, Canada: Derivation of Health Administrative Data Algorithms and Determination of Health Services Utilization

Chan, Jason January 2016 (has links)
Introduction: The main objective of this thesis is to develop an algorithm to accurately identify cases of biopsy-proven Celiac Disease (CD) in children aged 6 months-14 years old from Ontario health administrative data. Method: CD cases diagnosed in 2005-2011 were identified from CHEO, and linked to the health administrative data to serve as reference for algorithms derivation. Algorithms based on outpatient physician visits for CD plus endoscopy billing code were constructed and tested. Results: The best algorithm selected based on performance from derivation study and clinical expertise consisted of an OHIP-based endoscopy billing claim followed by 1 or more adult or pediatric gastroenterologist encounters after the endoscopic procedure. The sensitivity, specificity, PPV, and NPV for the algorithm were 70.4%, >99.9%, 53.3% and >99.9% respectively. Conclusion: Study results suggest that the currently available Ontario health administrative data is not suitable for identifying incident pediatric CD cases.

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