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Handling onset age inconsistencies in longitudinal healthcare survey data

2026-02-23 health informatics Title + abstract only
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AO_SCPLOWBSTRACTC_SCPLOWLongitudinal healthcare surveys frequently contain inconsistencies in self-reported onset ages, where participants report different ages for the same condition between enrollment and follow-up surveys. We propose two methods to handle this challenge. First, we introduce a procedure that aggregates inconsistency patterns to construct participant-level reliability scores, enabling researchers to stratify participants and prioritize analysis on high-reliability cohorts. Seco...

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