Data matter: the creation of an acute care surgery registry.

Overall accuracy was good for most comorbidities, ranging from 83.8% to 100%; however, sensitivity, specificity, negative predictive value, and positive predictive value ranged drastically, suggesting that data on some comorbidities may not be accurately collected through health records.

Imaging procedures were consistent between the 2 data collection methods, with good overall accuracy of 97.6%.