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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2013
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| 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 |