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Modification of claims-based measures improves identification of comorbidities in non-elderly women undergoing mastectomy for breast cancer: a retrospective cohort study

BACKGROUND: Accurate identification of underlying health conditions is important to fully adjust for confounders in studies using insurer claims data. Our objective was to evaluate the ability of four modifications to a standard claims-based measure to estimate the prevalence of select comorbid cond...

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Autores principales: Nickel, Katelin B., Wallace, Anna E., Warren, David K., Ball, Kelly E., Mines, Daniel, Fraser, Victoria J., Olsen, Margaret A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4986377/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27527888
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-016-1636-7