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Hospital-based health care use correlates with incidence of adverse events among elderly Medicare patients treated in adjuvant chemotherapy trials (Alliance 70802)

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: Medicare claims can be useful in chemotherapy-related comparative effectiveness research (CER) estimating survival, but methods for estimating patients’ treatment morbidity are currently lacking. We sought to determine if patients’ health care use in the claims is a marker of treatment morbidity.

Source: Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

DOI: 10.17615/jce7-7s29

Authors: Yu, Menggang, Zaslavsky, Alan M., Lamont, Elizabeth B., Muss, Hyman, He, Yulei, Saltz, Leonard

Language: English

Topic: Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer

Subfield: Economics and Econometrics

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Cancer Institute

Award: G2647518335