Agreement of medicare claims and tumor registry data for assessment of cancer-related treatment

Medical Care

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 411-421

  Cooper, Gregory S ^a,b,c   Yuan, Zhong ^b   Stange, Kurt C ^a,b   Dennis, Leslie K ^b   Amini, Saeid B ^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; Medicare; Pancreatic neoplasms; Prostatic neoplasms

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER REGISTRY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSURANCE; MALE; MEDICARE; NEOPLASM; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSURANCE CLAIM REVIEW; MALE; MEDICARE; NEOPLASMS; SEER PROGRAM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034170728     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-200004000-00008     Document Type: Article

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