Developing model-based algorithms to identify screening colonoscopies using administrative health databases

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Sewitch, Maida J ^a,b,c   Jiang, Mengzhu ^b   Joseph, Lawrence ^a,b   Hilsden, Robert J ^d   Bitton, Alain ^a,c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CANADA; COLON TUMOR; COLONOSCOPY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; ALBERTA; ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; COLONOSCOPY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; QUEBEC; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84875921532     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-13-45     Document Type: Article

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