| STUDY /RESEARCHERS | METHOD / PURPOSE | DATA SOURCE | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|---|---|
| Huntington's disease (Hook EB, et al. (1)) |
Capture-recapture (Estimate prevalence) |
14 different ascertainment sources | The prevalence of cases of Huntington's disease in Maryland on April, 1980 was estimated using 14 different ascertainment sources. |
| Infections among hospitalized patients (Lewis CE, et al. (2)) |
Capture-recapture (Evaluate effectiveness of surveillance system) |
Physicians; Nurses; Bacteriology laboratory. |
The effectiveness of the monitoring systems for infections among hospitalized patients was estimated. This study was conducted in 1963 at the University of Kansas Medical Center. |
| Myocardial Infarctions (LaPorte RE, et al. (3)) |
Capture-recapture (Adjust incidence) |
MI community register; Hospital discharge and mortality data. |
The number of myocardial infarction in six communities in Sweden was evaluated. Two separate data sources in each of these communities were used. |
| Acute Encephalopathy and Seizure Rates (Bobo JK, et al. (4)) |
Log-linear model (Estimate population) |
Hospital surveillance; Provider surveillance; Study staff surveillance. |
A surveillance network was established in Oregon and Washington state to identify cases of neurologic illness (encephalopathies, infantile spasms, afebrile seizures and complex febrile seizures) from Aug. 1, 1987 to July 31, 1988 among children 1-24 months of age. Three sources were used to identify the cases and log-linear model was employed. |
| Children dependent on medical supports (Palfrey JS, et al. (5)) |
Capture-recapture (Estimate prevalence) |
Medical list; Educational list. |
The prevalence of children dependent on medical technology in Massachusetts in 1987 was estimated by capture-recapture and two information sources. |
| Homeless (Fisher N, et al. (6)) |
Log-linear model (Estimate population size) |
Hospital; Social services; Primary care; Homeless mental health team; Probation service; Hostels; Register of death. |
The size and psychiatric morbidity of the homeless population in north east Westmister, London was estimated by employing log-linear modeling method. The data were collected from 8 different sources. |
| Female streetworking prostitute population (McKeganey N, et al. (7)) |
Capture-recapture (Estimate population size) |
Records from each night of fieldwork by the authors. | A variant of the capture- recapture approach was used to estimate the size of the female streetworking prostitute population in Glasgow, Scotland in the period of January to September 1991. |
| Rett syndrome (Kozinetz CA, et al.(8)) |
Capture-recapture (Estimate completeness of registry) |
Primary sources: physician reports; Secondary sources: other reports. |
The completeness of case ascertainment for the Texas Rett Syndrome Registry in 1990 was evaluated by the two-source capture-recapture method. |
| Abortion mortality (Cates W, et al. (9)) |
Sekar and Deming method (Estimate degree of under reporting) |
NCHS classification; CDC classification. |
The completeness of the surveillance system for monitoring abortion mortality in US from 1972 to 1975 was estimated. Data from two systems were compared. |
| Hemophilia (Hewitt D, et al. (10)) |
Capture-recapture (Adjust prevalence) |
Hospital records; Canadian hemophilia society register. |
Two independent sources of number of hemophiliacs patients formed the basis for an estimate of the prevalence of hemophilia in the Province of Ontario at the first half of 1966. The statistical method capture-recapture was used to estimate the prevalence. |
| Homeless (Laska EM, et al. (11)) |
Plant-capture method (Estimate size of population) |
New York City | The size of the homeless population in New York City, 1990 was estimated. A known number of marked members are "planted" among the homeless population and the total population size can be estimated from the proportion of plants that are caught. |
| Vaccine-associated Paralytic Poliomyelitis (Prevots DR, et al. (12)) |
Capture-recapture (Estimate completeness of reporting) |
National surveillance system; National vaccine injury compensation program. |
Capture-recapture methods were applied to evaluate the completeness of reporting for paralytic poliomyelitis in US from 1980 through 1991. Two sources were used to identify the cases. |
| Deaths and Birth Rates (Sekar CC, et al (13)) |
Capture-recapture (Estimate degree of undercount) |
Self report events; Birth and death registration list. |
Capture-recapture method was employed to estimate the number of births and deaths over an area near Calcutta, India at 1945 and 1946 separately. |
| Medical Technology Assistance Among Children (Palfrey JS, et al. (14)) |
Capture-recapture (Estimate population size) |
Medical source; Educational source. |
Surveys were conducted in 1987 and 1990 in Massachusetts to determine the size and trends in the population of children from 3 months to 18 yr of age assisted by medical technology. By comparing counts obtained from 2 different sources, capture-recapture methods sere used to estimate the overall number of children dependent on medical technology. |
| Female street prostitution (Bloor M, et al. (15)) |
Variant of capture-recapture (Estimate size of population) |
Repeat field work contacts. | The prevalence of street prostitution in Glasgow in a 6-month period during 1989-1990 has been estimated by a new approach derived from the capture-recapture method and based on projection from ethnographic fieldwork contacts. |
| Childhood vaccine providers (Fix AD, et al (16)) |
Capture-Recapture (Estimate the number of childhood vaccine providers and completeness of the sources) |
American Medical Association-derived list; Maryland State Department of Health and Mental Hygiene-derived list |
A telephone survey of a sample of physicians from 2 sources was used to estimate the number of childhood vaccine providers in Maryland. It is estimated that there were 2077 childhood vaccine providers in Maryland , the completeness for the AMA-derived was 59.4% and state-derived was 71.7%. |
| Adverse drug reaction (Seeger JD, et al (17)) |
capture-recapture (Estimate rate) |
Sponstaneous reporting; Medical record |
CR method was used on adverse drug reaction data on patients hospitalized at the University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center from July 1991 to June 1994. The spontaneous reporting program identified 621 ADRs and 203 ADRs were by medical records; 18 were common to both. CR estimated number of ADRs was 6677 (0.1267 per hospital admission. |
| Stroke (Taub NA, et al (18)) |
Log-linear model (Estimate incidence) |
Hospital ward registers; general practitioners; rehabilitation staff; death certificate |
Log-linear model was applied to estimate the incidence of first time stroke among those aged under 75 years in 3 districts of south east England in 1989-1991. A total of 639 strokes were registered and the initial CR estimate of the total number of strokes was 1999. |
| Aseptic meningitis (Rebiere I, Galy-Eyraud C (19) ) |
Capture-recapture (Estimate the number of incidence) |
National network of hospital virology laboratories (EPIVIR); Pharmacovigilance Department of the vaccine manufacturer (P.M.sv) |
Two-sample capture-recapture was used to estimate the total number of aseptic meningitis cases associated with Urabe AM-9 vaccine between 1 January 1991 and 31 December 1993 in France. It is estimated that there were 116 such aseptic meningitis cases with the risk of aseptic meningitis as 1 case per 28,400 doses of Urabe AM-9 sold. The completeness was 21% for EPIVIR and 23% for P.M.sv. |
| Lupus (McCarty DJ, et al (20)) |
Log-linear model (Estimate number of incidence) |
U. of Pittsburgh Lupus Databank; Rheumatologists; hospitals |
Three sources were employed to identify incident cases of systemic lupus erythematosus diagnosed between January 1, 1985 and December 31, 1990 in Allegheny County, PA. The overall ascertainment rate was 85%, the ascertainment-corrected incidence rate for definite cases was 2.8 per 100,000. |
| Epilepsy and epileptic seizures (Murphy CC, et al (21)) |
Capture-recapture (Estimate prevalence) |
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In the metropolitan Atlanta, GA area, the author found a lifetime prevalence of childhood epilepsy of 6 per 1,000 10-year-old children. Using capture-recapture, the prevalence may be as high as 7.7 per 1,000. |
| WWII veteran twins (Page WF, et al (22)) |
Capture-recapture (Evaluate completeness of VA death reporting) |
VA death reporting; social Security Administration mortality |
The completeness of VA death reporting in a cohort of nearly 32,000 WWII veteran twins followed from 1946 to 1990 was evaluated by comparing VA and SSA mortality ascertainment. CR analysis results indicated that VA death reporting ascertainment was 95.4% complete. |
| Leukopenia (Xia ZL, et al. (23)) |
Capture-recapture (Estimate prevalence) |
Two data sets with 6-month apart | Ascertainment corrected prevalence rate of leukopenia in workers exposed to benzene in a small-scale industries were calculated using capture-recapture. It was estimated that the prevalence rate was 36.81% in workers exposed to benzene. |
| Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Tragnone A, et al. (24)) |
Capture-recapture (Estimate incidence rate) |
Hospital inpatients data; Diagnostic Services and General Practitioners data |
2-sample capture-recapture method was employed to estimate the inflammatory bowel disease in Italy fro 1989 to 1992. Using CR method, an estimated completeness of 0.81 was obtained for case archives. The ascertainment corrected rates were 6.8 for ulcerative colitis and 2.8 for Crohn's disease. |
| Coeliac Disease (Corrao G, et al. (25)) |
Capture-recapture (Estimate completeness) |
Diagnostic records of depts of pediatrics, general medicine, gastroenterology and national health services records | The incidence rates of coeliac disease in four areas of Italy were investigated during 1990 to 91. Using CR method, an estimated completeness of case archives of 0.84 was obtained, whereas this figure was only 0.47 for hospital source. |
| Lupus (Gourley IS, et al (26)) |
Capture-recapture (Estimate prevalence) |
Six data sources | Using 6 sources of patient ascertainment, 422 patients were identified as having a diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus in Northern Ireland. Capture-recapture method estimated that there were 71 patients missed during the initial identification process. |
| Pacemaker insertion (Lear TJ, et al (27)) |
Capture-recapture (Estimate prevalence) |
Hospital activity analysis data; Ward admission book and case note confirmation |
Capture-recapture method was used to determine the number of permanent cardiac pacemakers insertion among elderly diabetic patients. It was estimated that among subjects age over 65 yrs undergoing pacemaker insertion, 11.1% was diabaetic, while in the same age group, 8.3% of the controls were diabetic. |
| Splenectomy (Sarangi J, et al (28)) |
Capture-recapture (Estimate prevalence) |
General practitioners; Hospital information |
The prevalence of individuals who had had an operative splenectomy in Plymouth and Torbay District Health Authority was determined by capture-recapture method. It was estimated that the prevalence rate was 9.75 per 10,000 population. |