Quality Assessment of Coronary Event Registration Data in the WHO MONICA Project

Appendix 3. External quality control. Test case histories. The proportion (%) of agreement between the reference and MCC codes (see Section 7).
RUA MCC 1985 test items 1986 test items 1987 test items 1989 test items
Major1 Other2 Major1 Other2 Major1 Other2 Major1 Other2
AUS-NEWa 11 79 81 81 90 88 93 93 94
AUS-PERb 10 89 85 90 92 86 91 91 93
BEL-GCHa 12 93 93 93 92 93 94 90 90
BEL-LUXa 14 NA3 NA3 85 85 90 93 86 93
CAN-HALa 15 91 51 85 91 88 96 71 89
CHN-BEIa 14 NA3 NA3 90 86 90 98 96 99
CZE-CZEa 18 84 87 90 85 93 94 89 94
DEN-GLOa 19 71 52 81 76 93 87 89 92
FIN-FIN 20 63 2 86 69 85 76 98 95
FRA-LILa 59 86 93 89 87 86 93 98 98
FRA-STRa 54 90 97 88 92 90 97 94 97
FRA-TOUa 55 93 96 78 81 93 96 89 96
GER-AUGa 26 88 94 88 84 88 94 95 98
GER-BREb 24 98 99 93 93 98 99 94 98
GER-EGEa 23 64 44 89 85 89 97 90 96
ICE-ICEb 28 66 50 78 91 95 98 98 99
ITA-BRIa 57 86 84 93 92 94 97 94 96
ITA-FRIa 32 95 92 96 88 90 96 89 97
LTU-KAUa 45 96 92 84 89 99 97 94 98
NEZ-AUCa 33 88 62 89 92 88 96 81 81
POL-TARa 35 86 87 83 87 84 96 86 97
POL-WARa 36 71 86 85 83 95 99 95 98
RUS-MOSa 46 84 72 91 87 90 93 91 96
RUS-NOVa 47 NA3 NA3 90 81 90 96 84 95
SPA-CATa 39 70 57 80 86 93 97 95 98
SWE-GOTa 40 NA3 NA3 84 81 93 92 99 94
SWE-NSWa 60 89 81 76 81 91 96 91 97
SWI-SWIa 50 89 83 86 91 93 97 83 94
UNK-BELa 34 80 77 89 91 94 98 91 98
UNK-GLAa 37 93 94 93 92 95 97 94 96
USA-STAa 43 NA3 NA3 71 71 90 87 70 91
YUG-NOSa 49 79 74 71 77 94 93 85 92

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1major items: symptoms, serum enzymes, necropsy findings summary, and diagnostic category
2other items: altogether 19 test case history items, excluding major items, diagnostic algorithm, and ECG.
3NA=not available