Patients with newly diagnosed carcinoma of the breast: Validation of a claim-based identification algorithm

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 57-64

  Leung, Kwan Moon ^a,b   Hasan, Aliya G ^c   Rees, Karen S ^a   Parker, Robert G ^d   Legorreta, Antonio P ^a,e  

^a Foundation Health Systems   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carcinoma of the breast; Claim based algorithm; Classification tree; Identification; Medical record review; Positive predictive value

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMBURSEMENT; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0032945950     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-4356(98)00143-7     Document Type: Article

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