Does capture-recapture analysis provide more reliable estimates of the incidence and prevalence of leg ulcers in the community?

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 451-455

  Walker, Natalie K ^a   Vandal, Alain C ^a   Holden, Jennifer K ^a   Rodgers, Anthony ^a   Birchall, Nicholas ^b   Norton, Robyn ^c   Triggs, Christopher M ^a   MacMahon, Stephen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b Auckland Dermatology   (New Zealand)

^c Institute for International Health   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEG ULCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEW ZEALAND; NEWBORN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT REFERRAL; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; RELIABILITY; SELF REPORT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

EID: 0036975316     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.2002.tb00346.x     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Biland L, Widmer LK. Varicose veins (vv) and chronic venous insufficiency (cvi): Medical and socio-economic aspects, Basle Study. Acta Chir Scand Suppl 1988;544:9-11.
2. Holtz D, Erni D, Widmer M, Jager K. Epidemiology of varicose veins with special regard to socio-economic aspects. Acta Chir Austriaca 1998;30:68-70.
3. Lindholm C, Bjellerup M, Christensen OB, Zederfeldt B. A demographic survey of leg and foot ulcer patients in a defined population. Acta Derm Venereol (Stockh) 1992;72:227-30.
4. Moffatt C, Wright D, Besley D, McCollum C, Greenhalgh R. A new approach to chronic venous ulcers in the community. Br J Surg 1989;76(4):418.
5. Seber G. The Estimation of Animal Abundance and Related Parameters. 2nd ed. London: Griffin; 1982.
6. Hook E, Regal R. Capture-recapture methods in epidemiology: Methods and limitations. Epidemiol Rev 1995;17(2):243-64.
7. Abeni D, Brancata G, Perucci C. Capture-recapture to estimate the size of the population with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 infection. Epidemiology 1994;410-4.
8. Bruno G, Bargero G, Vuolo A, Pisu E, Pagano G. A population-based prevalence survey of known diabetes mellitus in Northern Italy based upon multiple independent sources of ascertainment. Diabetologia 1992;35:851-6.
9. Fisher N, Turner S, Pugh R, Taylor C. Estimating numbers of homeless and homeless mentally ill people in north east Westminster by using capture-recapture analysis. Br Med J 1994;308(6920):27-30.
10. Thomas T, Plymat K, Blannin J, Meade T. Prevalence of urinary incontinence. Br Med J 1980;281:1243-5.
11. Hook E, Albright S, Cross P. Use of Bernoulli census and log-linear methods for estimating the prevalence of spina bifida in live births and the completeness of vital record reports in New York State. Am J Epidemiol 1980; 112(6);750-8.
12. Walker N, Rodgers A, Birchall N, Norton R, MacMahon S. The occurrence of leg ulcers in Auckland, New Zealand: Results of a population-based study. N Z Med J 2002;115(1151):159-62.
13. Friedman G. Medical usage and abusage: "prevalence" and "incidence". Ann Intern Med 1976;84:502-4.
14. Hennekens C, Buring J, editors. Epidemiology in Medicine. Boston: Little, Brown and Company; 1987.
15. Altman D. Practical Statistics for Medical Research. London: Chapman Hall; 1991.
16. Supermap: 1996 Census Data [Data Mapping Computer Program]. Version 3. Wellington(NZ): Statistics New Zealand; 1996.
17. Fienberg S. The multiple recapture census for closed populations and incomplete 2k contigency tablets. Biometrika 1972;59(3):591-603.
18. Akaike H. Information theory and an extension of the maximum likelihood principle. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Information; 1973;267-81. Petrov BN and Csaki F (eds). Budapest: Akadema Kiado.
19. Regal R, Hook E. Goodness-of-fit based confidence intervals for estimates of the size of a closed population. Stat Med 1984;3:287-91.
20. Hook E, Regal R. Effect of variation in probability of ascertainment by sources ("variable catchability") upon "capture-recapture" estimates of prevalence. Am J Epidemiol 1993;137(10):1148-66.
21. Walker N. Epidemiological studies of leg ulcers in Auckland, New Zealand [thesis]. Auckland(NZ): University of Auckland; 2000.
22. World Health Organization. World Health Statistics Annual 1989. Geneva: WHO; 1990.
23. Papoz L, Balkau B, Lellouch J. Case counting in epidemiology: Limitations of methods based on multiple data sources. Int J Epidemiol 1996;25(3):474-8.