Identifying incident oral and pharyngeal cancer cases using Medicare claims

• Hauptverfasser: Mahnken Jonathan D (Verfasst von), Keighley John D (Verfasst von), Girod Douglas A (Verfasst von), Chen Xueyi (Verfasst von), Mayo Matthew S (Verfasst von)
• Format: Buch
• Veröffentlicht: BMC, 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Schlagworte: article
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<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Baseline and trend data for oral and pharyngeal cancer incidence is limited. A new algorithm was derived using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)-Medicare linked database to create an algorithm to identify inciden...