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Table 6 Agreements between maternal self-report and the EHR by mother’s highest level of education (n=2,844)

From: Validation of Canadian mothers’ recall of events in labour and delivery with electronic health records

Variable description

Sensitivity (%),(95% CI)

Specificity (%),(95% CI)

 

Highest level of education obtained

Highest level of education obtained

 

University

High school

University

High school

Caesarean delivery

99.6(98.7,100)

100(97.7,100)

99.8(99.4,100)

100(99.2,100)

Epidural usage

92.3(90.6,93.8)

86.6(82.8,89.7)

82.5(80.1,84.7)

81.3(76.5,85.6)

Infant birth weight

99.0(94.7,100)

89.7(75.8,97.1)

98.3(97.6,98.9)

96.0(94.0,97.5)

Infant gender

99.4(98.7,99.8)

99.3(97.5,99.9)

98.8(97.8,99.4)

99.6(98.1,100)

Labour induction

90.1(87.3,92.4)

79.3(72.8,84.8)

91.2(89.7,92.6)

89.0(85.9,91.6)

Multiple gestation pregnancy

93.3(77.9,99.2)

100(39.8,100)

99.9(99.6,100)

99.7(98.8,100)

Post-term births

96.0(92.3,98.3)

90.9(80.0,97.0)

88.7(87.1,90.1)

87.6(84.6,90.2)

Preterm births

95.3(90.6,98.1)

92.3(79.1,98.4)

98.9(98.3,99.3)

96.7(94.9,98.0)

  1. Note: Bold values indicate significance at α<0.05