Use of medicare data to identify incident breast cancer cases

Health Care Financing Review

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 237-246

  Warren, Joan L ^a   Riley, Gerald F ^b   Marshall McBean, A ^b   Hakim, Rosemarie ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER REGISTRY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MEDICARE; REVIEW;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MEDICARE; SEER PROGRAM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030481679     PISSN: 01958631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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