Table 3 Agreement between claims algorithm and operative reports for specific kidney cancer surgical procedures
From: External validation of a claims-based algorithm for classifying kidney-cancer surgeries
PROCEDURE BASED ON OPERATIVE REPORT | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
LPN | OPN | LRN | ORN | Total | ||
PROCEDURE BASED ON MEDICARE CLAIMS | LPN | 2 | 1* | 0 | 0 | 3 |
OPN | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 14 | |
LRN | 1 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 10 | |
ORN | 0 | 0 | 1 | 92 | 93 | |
Total | 3 | 15 | 9 | 93 | 120 | |
Observed agreement = 96.7% | ||||||