Skip to main content

Main menu

  • Home
  • Current Issue
  • Content
    • Current Issue
    • Early Access
    • Multimedia
    • Podcast
    • Collections
    • Past Issues
    • Articles by Subject
    • Articles by Type
    • Supplements
    • Plain Language Summaries
    • Calls for Papers
  • Info for
    • Authors
    • Reviewers
    • Job Seekers
    • Media
  • About
    • Annals of Family Medicine
    • Editorial Staff & Boards
    • Sponsoring Organizations
    • Copyrights & Permissions
    • Announcements
  • Engage
    • Engage
    • e-Letters (Comments)
    • Subscribe
    • Podcast
    • E-mail Alerts
    • Journal Club
    • RSS
    • Annals Forum (Archive)
  • Contact
    • Contact Us
  • Careers

User menu

  • My alerts

Search

  • Advanced search
Annals of Family Medicine
  • My alerts
Annals of Family Medicine

Advanced Search

  • Home
  • Current Issue
  • Content
    • Current Issue
    • Early Access
    • Multimedia
    • Podcast
    • Collections
    • Past Issues
    • Articles by Subject
    • Articles by Type
    • Supplements
    • Plain Language Summaries
    • Calls for Papers
  • Info for
    • Authors
    • Reviewers
    • Job Seekers
    • Media
  • About
    • Annals of Family Medicine
    • Editorial Staff & Boards
    • Sponsoring Organizations
    • Copyrights & Permissions
    • Announcements
  • Engage
    • Engage
    • e-Letters (Comments)
    • Subscribe
    • Podcast
    • E-mail Alerts
    • Journal Club
    • RSS
    • Annals Forum (Archive)
  • Contact
    • Contact Us
  • Careers
  • Follow annalsfm on Twitter
  • Visit annalsfm on Facebook
Research ArticleMethodology

Validating the 8 CPCSSN Case Definitions for Chronic Disease Surveillance in a Primary Care Database of Electronic Health Records

Tyler Williamson, Michael E. Green, Richard Birtwhistle, Shahriar Khan, Stephanie Garies, Sabrina T. Wong, Nandini Natarajan, Donna Manca and Neil Drummond
The Annals of Family Medicine July 2014, 12 (4) 367-372; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.1644
Tyler Williamson
1Department of Family Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
2Department of Public Health Sciences, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
PhD
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
  • For correspondence: tylerw@cpcssn.org
Michael E. Green
1Department of Family Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
2Department of Public Health Sciences, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
MD, MPH, CCFP, FCFP
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Richard Birtwhistle
1Department of Family Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
2Department of Public Health Sciences, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
MD, MSc, FCFP
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Shahriar Khan
1Department of Family Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
MSc
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Stephanie Garies
3Department of Family Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
MPH
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Sabrina T. Wong
4School of Nursing, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
PhD, RN
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Nandini Natarajan
5Department of Family Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
MD, CCFP
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Donna Manca
6Department of Family Medicine, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada
MD, MSc, CCFP, FCFP
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Neil Drummond
6Department of Family Medicine, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada
PhD
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
  • Article
  • Figures & Data
  • eLetters
  • Info & Metrics
  • PDF
Loading

Article Information

vol. 12 no. 4 367-372
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.1644
PubMed 
25024246

Published By 
The Annals of Family Medicine
Print ISSN 
1544-1709
Online ISSN 
1544-1717
History 
  • Received for publication September 17, 2013
  • Revision received January 30, 2014
  • Accepted for publication February 22, 2014
  • Published online July 14, 2014.

Copyright & Usage 
© 2014 Annals of Family Medicine, Inc.

Author Information

  1. Tyler Williamson, PhD1,2⇑,
  2. Michael E. Green, MD, MPH, CCFP, FCFP1,2,
  3. Richard Birtwhistle, MD, MSc, FCFP1,2,
  4. Shahriar Khan, MSc1,
  5. Stephanie Garies, MPH3,
  6. Sabrina T. Wong, PhD, RN4,
  7. Nandini Natarajan, MD, CCFP5,
  8. Donna Manca, MD, MSc, CCFP, FCFP6 and
  9. Neil Drummond, PhD6
  1. 1Department of Family Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
  2. 2Department of Public Health Sciences, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
  3. 3Department of Family Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  4. 4School of Nursing, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
  5. 5Department of Family Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
  6. 6Department of Family Medicine, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada
  1. CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Tyler Williamson, PhD, Centre for Studies in Primary Care, 220 Bagot St, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 5E9, tylerw{at}cpcssn.org

Statistics from Altmetric.com

Article usage

Article usage: July 2014 to April 2025

AbstractFullPdf
Jul 2014570439121
Aug 201433216349
Sep 20142638348
Oct 20141332330
Nov 2014863740
Dec 20141084229
Jan 2015963934
Feb 2015503717
Mar 2015933724
Apr 2015573515
May 2015531313
Jun 2015533023
Jul 2015553023
Aug 2015473522
Sep 2015544721
Oct 2015563117
Nov 2015651926
Dec 2015471313
Jan 2016292528
Feb 2016432528
Mar 2016501437
Apr 2016331510
May 2016482419
Jun 2016553016
Jul 2016533011
Aug 2016521420
Sep 2016501718
Oct 2016361616
Nov 2016382120
Dec 201632814
Jan 201747166
Feb 2017663623
Mar 2017483214
Apr 2017107766
May 201732921317
Jun 2017956419
Jul 2017342012
Aug 201712210413
Sep 20176011823
Oct 2017592925
Nov 2017765715
Dec 2017342714
Jan 2018491222
Feb 2018773718
Mar 2018813525
Apr 2018372431
May 2018482020
Jun 2018486519
Jul 2018482414
Aug 20181055821
Sep 2018612911
Oct 2018632815
Nov 2018593418
Dec 201840147
Jan 2019542124
Feb 2019631217
Mar 2019491824
Apr 2019312016
May 2019502627
Jun 2019382623
Jul 2019352034
Aug 2019452124
Sep 2019541824
Oct 2019622432
Nov 20192001437
Dec 2019561517
Jan 2020661838
Feb 2020453517
Mar 2020803433
Apr 20201052323
May 2020424628
Jun 2020335219
Jul 2020265115
Aug 2020252320
Sep 2020265023
Oct 2020205631
Nov 2020243538
Dec 2020314850
Jan 20212328329
Feb 20212612238
Mar 2021385029
Apr 2021327635
May 2021356541
Jun 2021288542
Jul 2021287349
Aug 2021234222
Sep 2021364030
Oct 2021297447
Nov 2021445554
Dec 2021264831
Jan 2022376349
Feb 2022369143
Mar 2022378268
Apr 2022368152
May 2022239150
Jun 2022238536
Jul 2022325732
Aug 2022448733
Sep 2022316236
Oct 2022367629
Nov 2022298638
Dec 2022238726
Jan 2023268134
Feb 2023205123
Mar 2023247321
Apr 2023195928
May 2023253523
Jun 2023254626
Jul 2023185126
Aug 2023176327
Sep 2023146312
Oct 2023428422
Nov 20231915318
Dec 20239230027
Jan 2024909085
Feb 2024348417
Mar 20243423336
Apr 20243313429
May 20242144012
Jun 2024116512
Jul 2024138020
Aug 2024154310
Sep 202477115
Oct 2024135111
Nov 20249483
Dec 202493918
Jan 20258477
Feb 202546013
Mar 20251411516
Apr 20251110520

Cited By...

  • 164 Citations
  • Google Scholar
PreviousNext
Back to top

In this issue

The Annals of Family Medicine: 12 (4)
The Annals of Family Medicine: 12 (4)
Vol. 12, Issue 4
July/August 2014
  • Table of Contents
  • Index by author
  • Back Matter (PDF)
  • Front Matter (PDF)
  • The Issue in Brief
Print
Download PDF
Article Alerts
Sign In to Email Alerts with your Email Address
Email Article

Thank you for your interest in spreading the word on Annals of Family Medicine.

NOTE: We only request your email address so that the person you are recommending the page to knows that you wanted them to see it, and that it is not junk mail. We do not capture any email address.

Enter multiple addresses on separate lines or separate them with commas.
Validating the 8 CPCSSN Case Definitions for Chronic Disease Surveillance in a Primary Care Database of Electronic Health Records
(Your Name) has sent you a message from Annals of Family Medicine
(Your Name) thought you would like to see the Annals of Family Medicine web site.
CAPTCHA
This question is for testing whether or not you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.
9 + 3 =
Solve this simple math problem and enter the result. E.g. for 1+3, enter 4.
Citation Tools
Validating the 8 CPCSSN Case Definitions for Chronic Disease Surveillance in a Primary Care Database of Electronic Health Records
Tyler Williamson, Michael E. Green, Richard Birtwhistle, Shahriar Khan, Stephanie Garies, Sabrina T. Wong, Nandini Natarajan, Donna Manca, Neil Drummond
The Annals of Family Medicine Jul 2014, 12 (4) 367-372; DOI: 10.1370/afm.1644

Citation Manager Formats

  • BibTeX
  • Bookends
  • EasyBib
  • EndNote (tagged)
  • EndNote 8 (xml)
  • Medlars
  • Mendeley
  • Papers
  • RefWorks Tagged
  • Ref Manager
  • RIS
  • Zotero
Get Permissions
Share
Validating the 8 CPCSSN Case Definitions for Chronic Disease Surveillance in a Primary Care Database of Electronic Health Records
Tyler Williamson, Michael E. Green, Richard Birtwhistle, Shahriar Khan, Stephanie Garies, Sabrina T. Wong, Nandini Natarajan, Donna Manca, Neil Drummond
The Annals of Family Medicine Jul 2014, 12 (4) 367-372; DOI: 10.1370/afm.1644
Twitter logo Facebook logo Mendeley logo
  • Tweet Widget
  • Facebook Like
  • Google Plus One

Jump to section

  • Article
    • Abstract
    • INTRODUCTION
    • METHODS
    • RESULTS
    • DISCUSSION
    • Acknowledgments
    • Footnotes
    • References
  • Figures & Data
  • eLetters
  • Info & Metrics
  • PDF

Related Articles

  • PubMed
  • Google Scholar

Cited By...

  • Predicting Depression in Canadians with or at Risk of Diabetes: A Cross-Sectional Machine Learning Analysis
  • Describing primary care patterns before and during the COVID-19 pandemic across Canada: a quasi-experimental pre-post design cohort study using national practice-based research network data
  • Prevalence and management of dyslipidemia in primary care practices in Canada
  • Predicting Diabetes in Canadian Adults Using Machine Learning
  • Exploring the reliability of inpatient EMR algorithms for diabetes identification
  • Using machine learning to standardize medication records in a pan-Canadian electronic medical record database: a data-driven algorithm study focused on antibiotics prescribed in primary care
  • Atteinte des cibles therapeutiques pour le diabete de type 2 en 2015 et 2020 en medecine de soins primaires au Canada
  • Older persons living with dementia and their use of acute care services over 2 years in Alberta
  • Achievement of treatment targets among patients with type 2 diabetes in 2015 and 2020 in Canadian primary care
  • Comprehensiveness of care for women with depression: Association between primary care use and cervical cancer screening
  • Primary medication nonadherence in a large primary care population: Observational study from Manitoba
  • A Review of 50 Years of International Literature on the External Environment of Building Practice-Based Research Networks (PBRNs)
  • Increasing likelihood of prescribing recommended lipid management: Primary care providers participation in cardiology continuing medical education
  • Development of a case definition for hearing loss in community-based older adults: a cross-sectional validation study
  • Identifying heart failure in patients with chronic obstructive lung disease through the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network in British Columbia: a case derivation study
  • Trends in diabetes medication use in Australia, Canada, England, and Scotland: a repeated cross-sectional analysis in primary care
  • Patients eligible and referred for bariatric surgery in southeastern Ontario: Retrospective cohort study
  • Assessing the quality of clinical and administrative data extracted from hospitals: The General Medicine Inpatient Initiative (GEMINI) experience
  • Cardiovascular risk factor documentation and management in primary care electronic medical records among people with schizophrenia in Ontario, Canada: retrospective cohort study
  • Primary care EMR and administrative data linkage in Alberta, Canada: describing the suitability for hypertension surveillance
  • Pelvic floor disorders in women who consult primary care clinics: development and validation of case definitions using primary care electronic medical records
  • Validation of a case definition for speech and language disorders: In community-dwelling older adults in Alberta
  • Prevalence of chronic kidney disease and cardiovascular comorbidities in adults in First Nations communities in northwest Ontario: a retrospective observational study
  • A Clinical Phenotyping Algorithm to Identify Cases of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Electronic Health Records
  • Quality of warfarin management in primary care: Determining the stability of international normalized ratios using a nationally representative prospective cohort
  • Developing a case definition for type 1 diabetes mellitus in a primary care electronic medical record database: an exploratory study
  • Trends in end digit preference for blood pressure and associations with cardiovascular outcomes in Canadian and UK primary care: a retrospective observational study
  • Impact of the Diabetes Canada Guideline Dissemination Strategy on the Prescription of Vascular Protective Medications: A Retrospective Cohort Study, 2010-2015
  • Antidepressant and antipsychotic prescribing in primary care for people with dementia
  • Team-based comanagement of diabetes in rural primary care
  • Use of Direct Oral Anticoagulants in Canadian Primary Care Practice 2010-2015: A Cohort Study From the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network
  • Manual review of electronic medical records as a reference standard for case definition development: a validation study
  • Methods to describe referral patterns in a Canadian primary care electronic medical record database: modelling multi-level count data
  • Clinical Population Medicine: Integrating Clinical Medicine and Population Health in Practice
  • A national surveillance project on chronic kidney disease management in Canadian primary care: a study protocol
  • Hospital admission rates and emergency department use in relation to glycated hemoglobin in people with diabetes mellitus: a linkage study using electronic medical record and administrative data in Ontario
  • Is glycemia control in Canadians with diabetes individualized? A cross-sectional observational study
  • The Cardiovascular Health in Ambulatory Care Research Team performance indicators for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: a modified Delphi panel study
  • Association between neighbourhood walkability and metabolic risk factors influenced by physical activity: a cross-sectional study of adults in Toronto, Canada
  • Automatic identification of type 2 diabetes, hypertension, ischaemic heart disease, heart failure and their levels of severity from Italian General Practitioners' electronic medical records: a validation study
  • Update from CPCSSN
  • Mise a jour sur le RCSSSP
  • Using Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network data to examine depression in patients with a diagnosis of Parkinson disease: a retrospective cohort study
  • Implementation of data management and effect on chronic disease coding in a primary care organisation: A parallel cohort observational study
  • Association between registered nurse staffing and management outcomes of patients with type 2 diabetes within primary care: a cross-sectional linkage study
  • Guiding the reporting of studies that use routinely collected health data
  • Prevalence and management of dementia in primary care practices with electronic medical records: a report from the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network
  • Harnessing the power of longitudinal data
  • Representativeness of patients and providers in the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network: a cross-sectional study
  • Comprendre la multimorbidite dans le contexte des soins primaires
  • Understanding multimorbidity in primary health care
  • Prevalence and management of osteoarthritis in primary care: an epidemiologic cohort study from the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network
  • Horses and buggies have some advantages over cars, but no one is turning back
  • Prevalence and management of hypertension in primary care practices with electronic medical records: a report from the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network
  • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in primary care: an epidemiologic cohort study from the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network
  • The diagnosis of depression and its treatment in Canadian primary care practices: an epidemiological study
  • In This Issue: Technical and Personal Systems, and Novel Risk Factors
  • Google Scholar

More in this TOC Section

  • Joint Display of Integrated Data Collection for Mixed Methods Research: An Illustration From a Pediatric Oncology Quality Improvement Study
  • Patient-Guided Tours: A Patient-Centered Methodology to Understand Patient Experiences of Health Care
  • Putting Evidence Into Practice: An Update on the US Preventive Services Task Force Methods for Developing Recommendations for Preventive Services
Show more Methodology

Similar Articles

Subjects

  • Domains of illness & health:
    • Chronic illness
  • Methods:
    • Quantitative methods
  • Other research types:
    • Health services
    • PBRN research
  • Other topics:
    • Clinical population medicine
    • Research capacity building

Keywords

  • primary health care
  • chronic disease
  • validation studies
  • electronic health records
  • sensitivity and specificity

Content

  • Current Issue
  • Past Issues
  • Early Access
  • Plain-Language Summaries
  • Multimedia
  • Podcast
  • Articles by Type
  • Articles by Subject
  • Supplements
  • Calls for Papers

Info for

  • Authors
  • Reviewers
  • Job Seekers
  • Media

Engage

  • E-mail Alerts
  • e-Letters (Comments)
  • RSS
  • Journal Club
  • Submit a Manuscript
  • Subscribe
  • Family Medicine Careers

About

  • About Us
  • Editorial Board & Staff
  • Sponsoring Organizations
  • Copyrights & Permissions
  • Contact Us
  • eLetter/Comments Policy

© 2025 Annals of Family Medicine