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cord-336784-24qizp9k	Robinson, Victoria A	Validation of the Provincial Transfer Authorization Centre database: a comprehensive database containing records of all inter-facility patient transfers in the province of Ontario	2006-10-06		.txt	text/plain	3035	167	48	Data variables in the categories patient demographics, facility identification and timing of transfer and reason and urgency of transfer had strong agreement levels. CONCLUSION: The very high level of agreement between institutional patient records and the PTAC data for fields compared in this study supports the validity of the PTAC database. The data contained in the PTAC database offer a chance to examine inter-facility patient transfers comprehensively at the provincial level for the first time. The validation process included selecting a random sample of 100 patient transfer records from the PTAC database and comparing these records to the institutional patient record for the transferred patient from the sending healthcare facility. Error rate refers to the number of times a variable from the PTAC database does not match the institutional patient record exactly divided by the sample size. The variables medical supervision and transfer service were missing 80% of the time from either the PTAC form, institutional patient record or both.	./cache/cord-336784-24qizp9k.txt	./txt/cord-336784-24qizp9k.txt