Development of a primary care screening algorithm for the early detection of patients at risk of primary antibody deficiency

Table 3 Concordance between PAD symptoms registered as diagnostic ICPC codes and free text

Presenting symptom	Registered in primary care EHR (diagnostic codes)	Registered in secondary care EHR (free text)	Concordance (%)
Upper RTI	30 (100%)	28 (93%)	93
Gastro-intestinal symptoms	17 (57%)	12 (40%)	57
Pneumonia	11 (37%)	11 (37%)	87
Auto-immune symptoms	11 (37%)	9 (30%)	87
Bronchiectasis	6 (20%)	6 (20%)	87
Arthritis/arthralgia	0 (0%)	4 (13%)	87
Meningitis	4 (13%)	4 (13%)	100

Concordance between symptoms registered as diagnostic codes in the primary care EHR and symptoms registered as free text in the secondary EHR. Data of 30 patients of an academic hospital before their PAD diagnosis. Data in columns 2 and 3 are presented as number of patients (%)
EHR electronic health record, ICPC International Classification of Primary Care, PAD primary antibody deficiency, RTI respiratory tract infection

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