Etkind P, Tang Y, Whelan M, Ratelle S, Murphy J, Sharnprapai S, Demaria A
Division of STD Prevention, Bureau of Communicable Disease Control, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, 305 South Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130, USA.
Epidemiol Infect. 2003 Aug;131(1):669-74. doi: 10.1017/s0950268803008914.
Because non-name-based case registries have recently been used for reporting human immunodeficiency virus infection, this study attempted to define the sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of case registry matches using non-name-based registries. The AIDS, sexually transmitted disease (STD), and tuberculosis (TB) case registries were matched using all available information to establish the standard. The registries were then matched again using five increasingly less specific criteria to compare sensitivity, specificity and accuracy. The registries were then also transformed into non-name-based codes as if they were the HIV registry and matched again. With name-based registries, sensitivities increased as the matching criteria became less exacting, while the accuracy declined slightly. Specificities remained close to 100% due to the relatively small number of matched cases. Results from matches of non-name-based registry matches were similar to those of the name-based registry matches. Non-name reporting can be used for data matching with acceptable accuracy.
由于最近非基于姓名的病例登记系统已被用于报告人类免疫缺陷病毒感染情况，本研究试图确定使用非基于姓名的登记系统进行病例登记匹配的敏感性、特异性和准确性。利用所有可用信息对艾滋病、性传播疾病（STD）和结核病（TB）病例登记系统进行匹配，以建立标准。然后使用五个越来越不具体的标准再次对登记系统进行匹配，以比较敏感性、特异性和准确性。接着，这些登记系统也被转换为非基于姓名的编码，就好像它们是艾滋病毒登记系统一样，然后再次进行匹配。对于基于姓名的登记系统，随着匹配标准变得不那么严格，敏感性增加，而准确性略有下降。由于匹配病例数量相对较少，特异性仍接近100%。非基于姓名的登记系统匹配结果与基于姓名的登记系统匹配结果相似。非姓名报告可用于数据匹配，准确性可接受。
