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Table 5 The proportions of misclassified between observed incident cases and estimated incident cases

From: The effect of the look-back period for estimating incidence using administrative data

Incidence

Look-back period (years)

2003 (1)

2004 (2)

2005 (3)

2006 (4)

2007 (5)

2008 (6)

2009 (7)

2010 (8)

2011 (9)

2012 (10)

2013 (11)

Uterine leiomyoma

 Observed (n)

3117

3193

3332

3196

3368

3287

3234

3476

3615

3787

3826

 Estimated (n)

2094

2353

2597

2697

2877

2822

3008

3198

3297

3576

3584

 Proportions of misclassified (%)

32.8

26.3

22.1

15.6

14.6

14.1

7.0

8.0

8.8

5.6

6.3

Adenomyosis

 Observed

596

565

709

662

707

770

843

920

1060

1036

1029

 Estimated

534

518

658

619

674

712

815

917

1010

1018

1037

 Proportions of misclassified (%)

10.4

8.3

7.2

6.5

4.7

7.5

3.3

0.3

4.7

1.7

−0.8

Endometriosis

 Observed

623

606

589

568

463

466

536

538

515

515

489

 Estimated

538

536

538

525

466

445

498

543

526

500

493

 Proportions of misclassified (%)

13.6

11.6

8.7

7.6

−0.6

4.5

7.1

−0.9

−2.1

2.9

−0.8