Stratifying medical and pharmaceutical administrative claims as a method to identify pediatric asthma patients in a Medicaid managed care organization

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 938-944

  Twiggs, Joan E ^a   Fifield, Judith ^b   Apter, Andrea J ^c   Jackson, Eric A ^b   Cushman, Robert A ^b  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Administrative claims; Diagnostic validity of claims; Medicaid managed care; Medicoepidemiology; Pharmacoepidemiology

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IDENTITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAID; MEDICAL RECORD; ORGANIZATION; PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRATIFICATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ASTHMA; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INSURANCE CLAIM REVIEW; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MANAGED CARE PROGRAMS; MEDICAID; PREVALENCE;

EID: 0036710722     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-4356(02)00428-6     Document Type: Article

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