Identifying incident cancer cases in dispensing claims

Introduction Dispensing claims are used commonly as proxy measures in pharmacoepidemiological studies; however, their validity is often untested. Objectives To assess the performance of a proxy for identifying cancer cases based on the dispensing of anticancer medicines and estimate the misclassi...

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Main Authors: Benjamin Daniels, Hanna E Tervonen, Sallie-Anne Pearson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Swansea University 2020-03-01
Series:International Journal of Population Data Science
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Online Access:https://ijpds.org/article/view/1152