Use of ICD-9 coding as a proxy for stage of disease in lung cancer

Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 709-713

  Thomas, Simu K ^a   Brooks, Sandra E ^b   Mullins, C Daniel ^a   Baquet, Claudia R ^a   Merchant, Sanjay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer staging; Claims; Lung neoplasms; Tumor registry; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CODING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; EARLY CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; HOSPITALIZATION; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LUNG TUMOR; PATHOLOGY;

HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0036906330     PISSN: 10538569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pds.759     Document Type: Article

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