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Development of a comorbidity index using physician claims data.
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A comorbidity index that incorporates the diagnostic and procedure data contained in Medicare physician (Part B) claims and demonstrates the utility of a disease-specific index using an alternative method of construction employing study-specific weights.About:
This article is published in Journal of Clinical Epidemiology.The article was published on 2000-12-01. It has received 1602 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Comorbidity.read more
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Overview of the SEER-Medicare data: content, research applications, and generalizability to the United States elderly population.
TL;DR: An overview of the SEER-Medicare files is provided for investigators interested in using these data for epidemiologic and health services research and a comparison of selected characteristics of elderly persons residing in the SEer areas to the US total aged is compared.
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Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975-2010, Featuring Prevalence of Comorbidity and Impact on Survival among Persons with Lung, Colorectal, Breast or Prostate Cancer
Brenda K. Edwards,Anne-Michelle Noone,Angela B. Mariotto,Edgar P. Simard,Francis P. Boscoe,S. Jane Henley,Ahmedin Jemal,Hyunsoon Cho,Robert N. Anderson,Betsy A. Kohler,Christie R. Eheman,Elizabeth Ward +11 more
TL;DR: The American Cancer Society, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Cancer Institute, and the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries collaborate annually to provide updates on cancer incidence and death rates and trends in these outcomes for the United States.
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Incidence and mortality of hip fractures in the United States.
TL;DR: In the United States, hip fracture rates and subsequent mortality among persons 65 years and older are declining, and comorbidities among patients with hip fractures have increased.
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Defining Comorbidity: Implications for Understanding Health and Health Services
TL;DR: It is shown that the value of a given construct lies in its ability to explain a particular phenomenon of interest within the domains of clinical care, epidemiology, or health services planning and financing.
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Risk of Fracture after Androgen Deprivation for Prostate Cancer
TL;DR: Androgen-deprivation therapy for prostate cancer increases the risk of fracture and there was a statistically significant relation between the number of doses of gonadotropin-releasing hormone received during the 12 months after diagnosis and the subsequent risk of fractures.
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A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation☆
TL;DR: The method of classifying comorbidity provides a simple, readily applicable and valid method of estimating risk of death fromComorbid disease for use in longitudinal studies and further work in larger populations is still required to refine the approach.
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Adapting a clinical comorbidity index for use with ICD-9-CM administrative databases
TL;DR: It is concluded that the adapted comorbidity index will be useful in studies of disease outcome and resource use employing administrative databases.
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Comorbidity measures for use with administrative data.
TL;DR: The present method addresses some of the limitations of previous measures and produces an expanded set of comorbidities that easily is applied without further refinement to administrative data for a wide range of diseases.
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Manual for Staging of Cancer
TL;DR: Part 1 General information on cancer staging and end-results reporting: purposes and principles of staging reporting of cancer survival and end results are explained.