A strategy to identify event specific hospitalizations in large health claims databases

• Main Authors: Joshua Lambert (Author), Harpal Sandhu (Author), Emily Kean (Author), Teenu Xavier (Author), Aviv Brokman (Author), Zachary Steckler (Author), Lee Park (Author), Arnold Stromberg (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Health insurance claims data offer a unique opportunity to study disease distribution on a large scale. Challenges arise in the process of accurately analyzing these raw data. One important challenge to overcome is the accurate classification of study outcomes. For example, using...