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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Epidemiol. 2014 Oct 16;25(1):55–59. doi: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2014.10.009

Table 4.

Stratified analysis by selected characteristics: Agreement between OC prescription fills in automated data and self-reported (SR) OC use from 0–5 years prior to reference date among women enrolled for at least 5 years.

Characteristic Total Numbera SR OC use (N) SR OC use (%) OC fills (N) OC fills (%) % observed agreement K (95% CI) PABAK (95% CI)
No history of fracture (control) 844 68 8 82 10 0.94 0.63 (0.54–0.73) 0.88 (0.85–0.91)
History of fracture (case) 555 38 7 50 9 0.95 0.59 (0.46–0.72) 0.87 (0.83–0.91)

Health Excellent/Very good 892 71 8 86 10 0.94 0.63 (0.53–0.73) 0.88 (0.85–0.91)
Health Good/Fair/Poor 507 35 7 54 11 0.93 0.60 (0.46–0.73) 0.87 (0.83–0.91)

Married or living with a partner 1032 83 8 107 10 0.94 0.63 (0.54–0.72) 0.88 (0.85–0.91)
Not partnered, divorced, widowed 367 23 6 33 9 0.94 0.58 (0.40–0.75) 0.88 (0.83–0.93)

1 or more Pregnancies 1043 75 7 100 10 0.94 0.61 (0.51–0.70) 0.88 (0.85–0.91)
No Pregnancy 354 31 9 40 11 0.94 0.64 (0.50–0.78) 0.87 (0.82–0.92)

Some college to post graduate degree 1219 93 8 122 10 0.94 0.63 (0.55–0.71) 0.88 (0.85–0.91)
High school graduate, GED or less education 179 13 7 18 10 0.93 0.54 (0.30–0.78) 0.85 (0.78–0.93)

White/Caucasian 1167 93 8 122 10 0.93 0.61 (0.52–0.69) 0.87 (0.84–0.90)
Non–white 226 13 6 18 8 0.96 0.69 (0.49–0.89) 0.92 (0.87–0.97)

Usually fill at a GH pharmacy 1237 100 8 130 11 0.94 0.62 (0.54–0.70) 0.87 (0.84–0.90)
Always fill at a GH pharmacy 162 6 4 10 6 0.96 0.61 (0.30–0.92) 0.93 (0.87–0.98)

LE 52 years at refdate 412 45 11 60 15 0.93 0.68 (0.57–0.80) 0.86 (0.81–0.91)
GT 52 years at refdate 987 61 6 80 8 0.94 0.57 (0.46–0.67) 0.88 (0.86–0.91)

No use of other hormone containing RX 1047 84 8 106 10 0.95 0.68 (0.59–0.76) 0.89 (0.87–0.92)
Used other hormone containing RX 350 21 6 30 9 0.91 0.40 (0.20–0.61) 0.83 (0.77–0.89)

PABAK Prevalence Adjusted and Bias Adjusted Kappa (bold represents statistically significant difference at α ≤ 0.05). K unadjusted Kappa. SR self report. OC oral contraceptive. CI 95% confidence interval. RX Medications.

a

Total numbers of stratified groups may not sum to 1399 due to missing data in the stratification variable.