Agreement of diagnosis and its date for hematologic malignancies and solid tumors between medicare claims and cancer registry data

Cancer Causes and Control

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 561-569

  Setoguchi, Soko ^a   Solomon, Daniel H ^a   Glynn, Robert J ^a   Cook, E Francis ^a,b   Levin, Raisa ^a   Schneeweiss, Sebastian ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Agreement; Cancer registry; Date of diagnosis; Incident cancer; Medicare claims; Misclassification; Positive predictive value; Senstivity; Sepcificity

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGED; ARTICLE; BILLING AND CLAIMS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER REGISTRY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLID TUMOR; STOMACH CANCER; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INSURANCE CLAIM REPORTING; MALE; MEDICARE; NEOPLASMS; PENNSYLVANIA; PREVALENCE; REGISTRIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34247598295     PISSN: 09575243     EISSN: 15737225     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10552-007-0131-1     Document Type: Article

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