Defining care provided for breast cancer based on medical record review or Medicare claims: Information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Patterns of Care Study

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 807-813

  Fleming, Steven T ^a   Kimmick, Gretchen G ^b   Sabatino, Susan A ^c   Cress, Rosemary D ^d   Wu, Xiao Cheng ^e   Trentham Dietz, Amy ^f   Huang, Bin ^g   Hwang, Wenke ^h   Liff, Jonathan M ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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

^d California Cancer Registry   (United States)

^e LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^h PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasm; Claims analysis; Clinical practice; Medical records; Medicare; Patterns

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN; EPIRUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE; PACLITAXEL;

AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEDICARE; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INSURANCE CLAIM REVIEW; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PREVALENCE; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; REGISTRIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84868191820     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: 18732585     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2012.08.001     Document Type: Article

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