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Patterns of care related to age of men with prostate cancer.
Charles L. Bennett,Charles L. Bennett,Harriet U. Aronow,Sheldon Greenfield,Patricia Ganz,Nicholas J. Vogelzang,Robert M. Elashoff +6 more
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Patients aged 75 years and older had significantly less intensive clinical staging workups and use of surgical and radiation therapies compared with patients aged 65 to 74 years and patients aged 50 to 64 years, suggesting that age bias is likely to be widespread.Citations
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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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Development of a comorbidity index using physician claims data.
TL;DR: 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.
PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY REPORT Development of a comorbidity index using physician claims data
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Potential for cancer related health services research using a linked Medicare-tumor registry database.
TL;DR: A collaborative effort to link Medicare Program data with the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program database will permit the investigation of the contribution of various patient and health care setting factors to treatment patterns, costs, and medical outcomes.
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Variations in medical care among small areas.
John E. Wennberg,Alan Gittelsohn +1 more
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Patterns of care related to age of breast cancer patients
TL;DR: It is concluded that physicians may manage patients with this highly treatable disease according to chronologic age without regard for physiological condition and that this age bias may result in a less favorable prognosis than could be achieved using currently recommended therapy.
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Are hospital services rationed in new haven or over-utilised in boston?
TL;DR: The findings indicate that academic standards of care are compatible with widely varying patterns of practice and that medical care costs are not necessarily high in communities served largely by university hospitals, and emphasise the need for increased attention to the outcome and cost implications of differences in practice styles.
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Choice of cancer therapy varies with age of patient.
TL;DR: Analysis of cancer cases collected by the New Mexico Tumor Registry shows that cancer therapy varies with age and suggests that decision making regarding therapy is influenced by the presence of other diseases.