Identifying a Cohort of Patients with Early-Stage Breast Cancer: A Comparison of Hospital Discharge and Primary Data

Medical Care

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1105-1117

  Jonkman, Jeffrey N ^a   Normand, Sharon Lise T ^b,c   Wolf, Robert ^b   Borbas, Catherine ^d   Guadagnoli, Edward ^b  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d Hlthcare Educ and Res Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

Data matching; Early stage breast cancer; Hospital discharge data; Logistic regression; Medical records

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOLOGY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SEGMENTAL MASTECTOMY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MASSACHUSETTS; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA; NEOPLASM STAGING; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 0035490424     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-200110000-00008     Document Type: Article

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