Enhancement of identifying cancer specialists through the linkage of medicare claims to additional sources of physician specialty

Health Services Research

Volumn 44, Issue 2P1, 2009, Pages 562-576

  Pollack, Lori A ^a   Adamache, Walter ^b   Eheman, Christie R ^a   Ryerson, A Blythe ^a   Richardson, Lisa C ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Medical; Medicare; Neoplasms; Specialties

Indexed keywords

DATABASES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MEDICARE; NEOPLASMS; SEER PROGRAM; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 62449227962     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2008.00935.x     Document Type: Article

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