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 d...
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| 格式: | Journal article |
| 语言: | English |
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BioMed Central
2013
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