Accuracy of medicare claims data in identifying Parkinsonism cases: Comparison with the medicare current beneficiary survey

Movement Disorders

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 509-514

  Noyes, Katia ^a,c   Liu, Hangsheng ^a   Holloway, Robert ^a   Dick, Andrew W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Administrative data; Medicare; Parkinson's disease; Positive predictive value; Sensitivity; Specificity

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BILLING AND CLAIMS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PARKINSONISM; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INSURANCE CLAIM REPORTING; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MEDICARE; PARKINSONIAN DISORDERS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF DISCLOSURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34247245161     PISSN: 08853185     EISSN: 15318257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mds.21299     Document Type: Article

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