A methodology for conducting retrospective chart review research in child and adolescent psychiatry

Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 126-134

  Gearing, Robin E ^a   Mian, Irfan A ^b,c   Baber, Jim ^d   Ickowicz, Abel ^b,c  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Archival data; Health record; Medical record; Methodology; Research; Retrospective chart review

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ANALYTICAL ERROR; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; DATA ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VALIDITY;

EID: 33749631575     PISSN: 12097268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

References (44)

1. Allison, J. J., Wall, T. C., Spettell, C. M., Calhoun, J., Fargason, C. A., Kobylinski, R. W., Farmer, R. & Kiefe, C. (2000). The art and science of chart review. Journal of Quality Improvement, 26(3), 115-136.
2. Ashton, C. M., Kuykendell, D. H., Johnson, M. L., Wray, N. P. & Wu, L., (1995). The association between the quality of inpatient care and early readmission. Annals of Internal Medicine, 122, 415-421.
3. Baldassano, C. F., Ghaemi, S. N., Chang, A., Lyman, A. & Lipari, M. (2004). Acute treatment of bipolar depression with adjunctive zonisamide: A retrospective chart review. Bipolar Disorders, 6, 432-434.
4. Banks, N. (1998). Designing medical record abstraction forms. International Journal of Qualitative Health Care, 10, 163-167.
5. Barzman, D. H., DelBello, M. P., Kowatch, R. A., Gernert, B., Fleck, D. E., Pathak, S., Rappaport, K., Delgado, S. V., Campbell, P. & Strakowski, S. M. (2004). The effectiveness and tolerability of aripiprazole for pediatric bipolar disordersd: A retrospective chart review. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, 14(4), 593-600.
6. Bloch, Y., Ratzoni, G., Sobol, D., Mendlovic, S., Gal, G. & Levkovitz, Y. (2005). Gender differences in electroconvulsive therapy: A retrospective chart review. Journal of Affective Disorders, 84, 99-102.
7. Butler, J. J. & Quinlan, J. W. (1958). Internal audit in the department of medicine of community hospital: 2 years' experience. Journal of the American Medical Association, 167, 567-572.
8. Caplan, R. A., Posner, K. L. & Cheney, F. W. (1991). Effect of outcome of physician judgments of appropriateness of care. Journal of the American Medical Association, 265, 1957-1960.
9. Clayton, A. & Thorne, T. (2000). Diary data enhancing rigour: Analysis framework and verification tool. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 32(6), 1514-1521.
10. Dworkin, R. J. (1987). Hidden bias in the use of archival data. Evaluation and the Health Professions, 10(2), 173-185.
11. Findley, T. W. & Daum, M. C. (1989). Research in physical medicine and rehabilitation III: The chart review or how to use clinical data for exploratory retrospective studies. American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 68(3), 150-157.
12. Gabel, S. & Shindledecker, R. (1990). Parental substance abuse and suspected child abuse/maltreatment predict outcome in children's inpatient treatment. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 29(6), 919-924.
13. Goldman, R. L. (1992). The reliability of peer assessments of quality of care. Journal of the American Medical Association, 267, 958-960.
14. Goldstein, S. & Schwebach, A. J. (2004). The comorbidty of pervasive developmental disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: Results of a retrospective chart review. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 34(3), 329-339.
15. Grant, J. E. (2005). Outcome study of kleptomania patients treated with naltrexone: A chart review. Journal of Clinical Neuropharmacology, 28(1), 11-14.
16. Haley, R.W., Hooton, T. M., Schoenfelder, J. R., Crossley, K. B., Quade, D., Stanley, R. C. & Culver, D. H. (1980). Effect of an infection surveillance and control program on the accuracy of retrospective chart review. American Journal of Epidemiology, 111(5), 543-555.
17. Harrell, F. E., Lee, K. L., Machar, D. B. & Reichert, T. A. (1985). Regressive models for prognostic prediction: Advantages, problems, and suggested solutions. Cancer Treatment Report, 69(10), 1071-1077.
18. Hellings, P. (2004). A rich source of clinical research data: Medical records and telephone logs. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 18(3), 154-155.
19. Henderson, D. C., Daley, T. B., Kunkel, L., Rodrigues-Scott, M., Koul, P. & Hayden, D. (2004). Clozapine and hypertension: A chart review of 82 patients. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 65(5), 686-689.
20. Hess, D. R. (2004). Retrospective studies and chart reviews. Respiratory Care, 49(10), 1171-1174.
21. Holmboe, E., Gross, R. & Hawkins, R. (1996). Chart reviews for residents. Academic Medicine, 71(11), 1139.
22. Jansen, A. C. M., van Aalst-Cohen, E. S., Hutten, B. A., Buller, H. R., Kastelein, J. J. P. & Prins, M. H. (2005). Guidelines were developed for data collection from medical records for use in retrospective analyses. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 58, 268-274.
23. Jasperse, D. M. & Ahmed, S. W. (1989). The mid-Atlantic oncology program's comparison of two data collection methods. Control Clinical Trials, 10, 282-289.
24. Krikorian, J. (1979). Quality control enhanced by chart review. Hospitals, 53(21), 97-98.
25. Lydiard, R. B. (1991). Problems with reports of preliminary results. American Journal of Psychiatry, 148(5), 686.
26. Marchand, W. R., Wirth, L. & Simon, C. (2004). Quetiapine adjunctive and monotherapy for pediatric bipolar disorder: A retrospective chart review. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology 14(3), 405-411.
27. Neidich, B. (1990). A method to facilitate student interest in research: Chart Review. Journal of Nursing Education, 29(3), 139-140.
28. Pan, L., Fergusson, D., Schweitzer, I. & Hebert, P. C. (2005). Ensuring high accuracy of data abstracted from patient charts: The use of a standardized medical record as a training tool. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 58(9), 918-923.
29. Perry, S. E. (2001). Appropriate use of pilot studies. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 33(2), 107.
30. Preen, D. B., Holman, C. D., Lawrence, D. M., Baynham, N. J. & Semmens, J. B. (2004). Hospital chart review provided more accurate comorbidity information than data from a general practitioner survey or an administrative database. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 57(12), 1295-1304.
31. Prescott, P. A. & Soeken, K. L. (1989). The potential uses of pilot work. Nursing Research, 38(1), 60-62.
32. Rajeev, J., Srinath, S., Girimaji, S., Seshadri, S. & Singh, P. (2004). A systematic chart review of the naturalistic course and treatment of early-onset bipolar disorder in a child and adolescent psychiatry center. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 45(2), 148-154.
33. Raykov, T. & Wideman, K. F. (1995). Issues in applied equation modeling research. Structural Equation Modeling, 2, 289-318.
34. Rosen, B. (1995). Fundamentals of biostatics. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company.
35. Sackett, D. L., Haynes, R. B., Guyatt, G. H. & Tugwell, P. (1991). Clinical epidemiology: A basic science for clinical medicine. Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Company.
36. Smith, A. J. (1996). Chart reviews made simple. Nursing Management. 27(8):33-34.
37. Staller, J. A. (2004). Intramuscular ziprasidone in youth: A retrospective chart review. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology 14(3), 590-592.
38. Staller, J. A., Kunwar, A. & Simionescu, M. (2005). Oxcarbazepine in the treatment of child psychiatric disorders: A retrospective chart review. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology 15(6), 964-969.
39. Thompson, J. W. & Spier, S. (1989). Quality of the psychiatric literature. American Journal of Psychiatry, 146(11), 1517.
40. Van Teijlingen, E. & Hundley, V. (2002). The Importance of Pilot Studies. Nursing Standard, 16(4), 33-36.
41. VonKoss Krowchuk, H., Moore, M. L. & Richardson, L. (1995). Using health records as sources of data for research. Journal of Nursing Measurements, 3(1), 3-12.
42. Woogh, C. (2001). Is schizophrenia on the decline in Canada? Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 46, 61-67.
43. Worster, A. & Haines, T. (2004). Advanced statistics: Understanding medical record review (MRR) studies. Academic Emergency Medicine, 11(2), 187-192.
44. Wu, L. & Ashton, C. M. (1997). Chart Review: A need for Reappraisal. Evaluation and Health Professions, 20(2), 145-163.