SP3-62 Agreement between medical record and parent report for evaluation of childhood febrile seizures

IntroductionLittle is known about the quality of medical record data used to evaluate febrile seizures despite its influence on vaccine recommendations.MethodsParent report from phone interviews and mailed questionnaires was compared to abstracted medical records of 110 children with febrile seizures between ages 3 and 60 months. Concordance between parent report and medical records for characteristics and predisposing factors of febrile seizures was assessed by per cent total agreement and κ statistic. Sensitivity of medical record and parent report was determined setting parent report and medical record as the standard, respectively (Tisnado, 2006).ResultsPer cent total agreement between medical record and parent report was good for many variables studied (62.5% had >70% agreement). However, κ was low for all measures (100% had κ