The utility of medicare claims data for measuring cancer stage

Medical Care

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 706-711

  Cooper, Gregory S ^a,b,c   Yuan, Zhong ^b   Stange, Kurt C ^a,b   Amini, Saeid B ^b   Dennis, Leslie K ^b   Rimm, Alfred A ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasms; Colorectal neoplasms; Endometrial neoplasms; Lung neoplasms; Pancreatic neoplasms; Prostatic neoplasms; medicare; Stage

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CLASSIFICATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; INSURANCE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICARE; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INSURANCE CLAIM REPORTING; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MEDICARE; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEER PROGRAM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033159326     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-199907000-00010     Document Type: Article

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