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Defining venous thromboembolism and measuring its incidence using Swedish health registries: a nationwide pregnancy cohort study.

BMJ Open 2015 November 12
OBJECTIVE: To accurately define venous thromboembolism (VTE) in the routinely collected Swedish health registers and quantify its incidence in and around pregnancy.

STUDY DESIGN: Cohort study using data from the Swedish Medical Birth Registry (MBR) linked to the National Patient Registry (NPR) and the Swedish Prescribed Drug Register (PDR).

SETTING: Secondary care centres, Sweden.

PARTICIPANT: 509,198 women aged 15-44 years who had one or more pregnancies resulting in a live birth or stillbirth between 2005 and 2011.

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: To estimate the incidence rate (IR) of VTE in and around pregnancy using various VTE definitions allowing direct comparison with other countries.

RESULTS: The rate of VTE varied based on the VTE definition. We found that 43% of cases first recorded as outpatient were not accompanied by anticoagulant prescriptions, whereas this proportion was much lower than those cases first recorded in the inpatient register (9%). Using our most inclusive VTE definition, we observed higher rates of VTE compared with previously published data using similar methodology. These reduced by 31% (IR=142/100,000 person-years; 95% CI 132 to 153) and 22% (IR=331/100,000 person-years; 95% CI 304 to 361) during the antepartum and postpartum periods, respectively, using a restrictive VTE definition that required anticoagulant prescriptions associated with diagnosis, which were more in line with the existing literature.

CONCLUSIONS: We found that including VTE codes without treatment confirmation risks the inclusion of false-positive cases. When defining VTE using the NPR, anticoagulant prescription information should therefore be considered particularly for cases recorded in an outpatient setting.

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