Reliability of mothers' reports of birth data

Oates, R. K.; Forrest, Douglas

doi:10.1111/j.1440-1754.1984.tb00075.x

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“…(8). Three studies analyzing concordance up to 10 years after delivery generally found poor to fair agreement between medical records and maternal recall of type of delivery, anesthesia used and major complications (9)(10)(11). The two studies that provided a quantitative estimate of concordance of recall more than 10 years after delivery both found high concordance rates for recall of birth weight and delivery by cesarean section, which is consistent with our findings.…”

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Concordance of chart abstraction and patient recall of intrapartum variables up to 53 years later

Hopkins

Caughey

Brown

et al. 2007

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

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Objective-To determine the concordance of patient recall compared to chart abstraction for distant intrapartum variables and to evaluate predictors of concordance.Methods-A random sample from a population-representative cohort of 2,109 ethnically diverse women aged 40-74 years. Intrapartum variables reported by participants were compared to data abstracted from labor and delivery records from up to 53 years prior. Outcomes were assessed for sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), and negative predictive value (NPV) of patient recall compared to chart abstraction. Logistic regression was used to determine predictors of concordance of patient recall. NIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author ManuscriptResults-401 births among 178 women were analyzed. Mean length of time between birth and recall was 29.6 years. Recall of cesarean delivery had the highest concordance (sensitivity=0.98, specificity=1.00, PPV=1.00, NPV=0.99), followed by birth weight ≥4000gm (sensitivity=0.86, specificity=0.91, PPV=0.53, NPV=.98) Use of oxytocin and laceration requiring repair had the lowest concordance (sensitivity=0. 43, specificity=0.75, PPV=0.54, NPV=0.91; sensitivity=0.37, specificity=0.68, PPV=0.34, NPV=0.81 respectively). No variables consistently predicted concordance or discordance of recall.Conclusion-The concordance of patient recall to chart abstraction for intrapartum variables varies widely. Knowledge of the level of concordance expected for specific variables may be helpful to clinicians who often must rely on patient recall, rather then medical records, for intrapartum histories, and for researchers seeking to identify intrapartum risk factors based on patient recall.

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Concordance of chart abstraction and patient recall of intrapartum variables up to 53 years later

Hopkins

Caughey

Brown

et al. 2007

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

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“…With only a few exceptions [17,18], most previous studies suggested fair agreement between mothers' retrospective reports and pediatric records or birth certificates on infant birth weight [1e6,9]. We were surprised to note that the maternally reported infant birth weight in Taiwan was so seriously misreported.…”

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confidence: 71%

“…Maternal recall information regarding pregnancy and birth outcome has been commonly used in epidemiological research, in particular in caseecontrol designs [7,8,17,18]. Data used in the present study are also retrieved from a caseecontrol study [12].…”

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Mothers tended to overreport categorical infant birth weight of their children

Wei

et al. 2006

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

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“…To date, the accuracy of maternal report of BW3–8 has been subject of more attention than maternal report of GA 9,10. Furthermore, previous studies have focused mainly on the accuracy of maternal recall, and only few studies have examined both the accuracy and reliability of recalled BW 3,9.…”

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“…Furthermore, previous studies have focused mainly on the accuracy of maternal recall, and only few studies have examined both the accuracy and reliability of recalled BW 3,9. Epidemiological studies have demonstrated that accuracy of maternal recall differs significantly among populations 7.…”

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Accuracy and correlates of maternal recall of birthweight and gestational age

Adegboye

Heitmann

2008

BJOG

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Objective To determine the accuracy of maternal recall of children birthweight (BW) and gestational age (GA), using the Danish Medical Birth Register (DBR) as reference and to examine the reliability of recalled BW and its potential correlates.Design Comparison of data from the DBR and the European Youth Heart Study (EYHS).Setting Schools in Odense, Denmark.Population A total of 1271 and 678 mothers of school children participated with information in the accuracy studies of BW and GA, respectively. The reliability sample of BW was composed of 359 women.Method The agreement between the two sources was evaluated by mean differences (MD), intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) and Bland-Altman's plots. The misclassification of the various BW and GA categories were also estimated.Main outcome measures Differences between recalled and registered BW and GA.Results There was high agreement between recalled and registered BW (MD = -0.2 g; ICC = 0.94) and GA (MD = 0.3 weeks; ICC = 0.76). Only 1.6% of BW would have been misclassified into low, normal or high BW and 16.5% of GA would have been misclassified into preterm, term or post-term based on maternal recall. The logistic regression revealed that the most important variables in the discordance between recalled and registered BW were ethnicity and parity. Maternal recall of BW was highly reliable (MD = -5.5 g; ICC = 0.93), and reliability remained high across subgroups.Conclusion Maternal recall of BW and GA seems to be sufficiently accurate for clinical and epidemiological use.

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Reliability of mothers' reports of birth data

Cited by 16 publications

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Concordance of chart abstraction and patient recall of intrapartum variables up to 53 years later

Concordance of chart abstraction and patient recall of intrapartum variables up to 53 years later

Mothers tended to overreport categorical infant birth weight of their children

Accuracy and correlates of maternal recall of birthweight and gestational age

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