Agreement between patients' self-report and medical records for vaccination: the PGRx database.

摘要: Purpose Patients' self-reported vaccine exposure (PS) may be subject to memory errors and other biases. Physicians' prescription records medical (MR) do not capture noncompliance with vaccination. This study compared PS MR for influenza, 23-valent pneumococcal, human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines. Methods The Pharmacoepidemiologic General Research Extension (PGRx) database uses a network of over 300 general practitioners across France, who systematically recruit an age- sex-stratified sample patients (≥ 14 years old), without reference their diagnoses or prescriptions. Patients received structured telephone interview, combined interview guide listing vaccines commonly given. Patients' vaccination in the 3 years before recruitment was kept by physician patient. Results Concordance between assessed 7613 whom both sources information were available. Agreement within date substantial influenza (prevalence bias-adjusted kappa [PABAK] = 0.74, sensitivity relative 81.5%) high pneumococcal (PABAK = 0.98, 49.6) HPV (PABAK = 0.92, 91.6). In adjusted analyses, agreement varied sociodemographic health-related factors, particularly vaccines. Conclusions The PGRx method drug assessment is new tool pharmacoepidemiology that shows various vaccines. Our finding status young women significant addition literature. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.