Distinguishing screening from diagnostic mammograms using medicare claims data

Medical Care

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Fenton, Joshua J ^a   Zhu, Weiwei ^b   Balch, Steven ^b   Smith Bindman, Rebecca ^c   Fishman, Paul ^b   Hubbard, Rebecca A ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GROUP HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

breast cancer screening; mammography; Medicare; quality assessment; validation studies

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CANCER SURVEILLANCE CONSORTIUM REGISTRY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SCREENING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICARE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSURANCE CLAIM REVIEW; MAMMOGRAPHY; MEDICARE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84902482320     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e318269e0f5     Document Type: Article

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