Use of algorithms for identifying patients in a German claims database: learnings from a lung cancer case

• Main Authors: Sina Neugebauer (Author), Frank Griesinger (Author), Sabine Dippel (Author), Stephanie Heidenreich (Author), Nina Gruber (Author), Detlef Chruscz (Author), Sebastian Lempfert (Author), Peter Kaskel (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background The analysis of statutory health insurance (SHI) data is a little-used approach for understanding treatment and care as well as resource use of lung cancer (LC) patients in Germany. The aims of this observational, retrospective, longitudinal analysis of structured data were to an...