Use of Medicare Hospital and Physician Data to Assess Breast Cancer Incidence

Medical Care

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 445-456

  Warren, Joan L ^a   Feuer, Eric ^a   Potosky, Arnold L ^a   Riley, Gerald F ^b   Lynch, Charles F ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasms; Epidemiologic methods; Incidence; Medicare; SEER

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER REGISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MEDICARE; REGISTER; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INPATIENTS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MEDICARE PART A; MEDICARE PART B; REGISTRIES; ROC CURVE; SEER PROGRAM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033125303     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-199905000-00004     Document Type: Article

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