Misclassification of incident conditions using claims data: impact of varying the period used to exclude pre-existing disease

BACKGROUND: Estimating the incidence of medical conditions using claims data often requires constructing a prevalence period that predates an event of interest, for instance the diagnosis of cancer, to exclude those with pre-existing conditions from the incidence risk set. Those conditions missed du...

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Autores principales: Griffiths, Robert I, O’Malley, Cynthia D, Herbert, Robert J, Danese, Mark D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3602098/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23496890
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-13-32

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3602098/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23496890
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2288-13-32

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