A method to predict breast cancer stage using Medicare claims

BACKGROUND: In epidemiologic studies, cancer stage is an important predictor of outcomes. However, cancer stage is typically unavailable in medical insurance claims datasets, thus limiting the usefulness of such data for epidemiologic studies. Therefore, we sought to develop an algorithm to predict...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Smith, Grace L, Shih, Ya-Chen T, Giordano, Sharon H, Smith, Benjamin D, Buchholz, Thomas A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
Materias:
Methodology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2818641/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20145734
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-5573-7-1

Ejemplares similares

Ejemplares similares