Validation of administrative health data for the pediatric population: a scoping review

Table 1 Medline search strategy for scoping review

‘Validation study’ search terms	‘Pediatric population’ search terms	‘Administrative data’ search terms
1. validation studies [MeSH]	7. exp pediatrics [MeSH]	10. medical record linkage [MeSH]
2. case definition*.mp.	8. *adolescent [MeSH] or exp child [MeSH] or exp infant [MeSH]	11. “discharge claim*”.ab, ti.
2. case definition*.mp.		12. discharge data.ab, ti.
3. case validation.mp.	9. 7 or 8	13. “administrative data*”.ab, ti.
4. “sensitivity and specificity” [MeSH] or “predictive value of tests” [MeSH] or roc curve [MeSH]		14. “hospital record*”.ab, ti.
5. valid*.ab, ti.		15. “outpatient record*”.ab, ti.
6. or/1-5		16. “inpatient record*”.ab, ti.
		17. “physician claim*”.ab, ti.
		18. “Clinical Coding” [MeSH]
		19. “International Classification of Diseases” [MeSH] with/sn [Statistics & Numerical Data] subheading
		20. (ICD9 or “ICD 9” or ICD-9).ab, ti.
		21. (ICD10 or “ICD 10” or ICD-10).ab, ti.
		22. “administrative billing code*”.ab, ti.
		23. hospital-discharge data.ab, ti.
		24. hospital billing data.ab, ti.
		25. “discharge code*”.ab, ti.
		26. “admissions record*”.ab, ti.
		27. “discharge record*”.ab, ti.
		28. “discharge abstract*”.ab, ti.
		29. or/10-28

Note: MeSH = medical subject heading; .mp = keywords search of title, abstract, heading word, table of contents, key concepts, original title, tests & measures; .ti, ab = keyword search of title, abstract only; quotations = a phrase search; exp = used with a MeSH term to include all narrower MeSH terms; *after keyword indicates truncation (e.g., code* will retrieve “codes”, “code”, “coded”); *with a MeSH term indicates that the term is a major topic of the article.

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