SSA 831 files were used to determine benefit application date, and the SSA 2009 Ticket Research File (TRF09) was used to identify the receipt of disability benefits.
In conclusion, we assessed the validity of the DNRP for identifying the receipt of any chemotherapy and specific treatments.
The comparisons of any chemotherapy and specific treatments reported by the reference standard and the DNRP for each hospital are shown in Table 2. Overall, the measures of validity and agreement for identifying the receipt of any chemotherapy were high.
Prior studies in the United States have shown similar results when examining the validity of administrative data, such as Medicare claims, to identify the receipt of chemotherapy among older CRC patients.
In this study, we evaluated the validity of the DNRP for identifying the receipt of chemotherapy and specific treatments, and the timing and number of treatments among CRC patients, using medical records and pharmacy data as the reference standard.
The aim of this study was to evaluate the validity of the Danish National Registry of Patients (DNRP), a hospital-based medical registry, to identify the receipt of chemotherapy and specific treatments, as well as the timing and number of treatment courses among CRC patients using information from patient medical records and pharmacy production data as the reference standard.
A transfusion episode was identified by the receipt of at least one unit of pRBCs on any given day of hospitalization.
The objective of this study was to describe the transition from bi- and quadrivalent HPV vaccines to 9vHPV in aggregate and identify determinants of the receipt of 9vHPV among youth following the introduction of 9vHPV in North Carolina.
We will identify predictors of the receipt of any treatment, and type of treatment, using logistic regression models.
We used bivariate analyses to identify differences in the receipt of preventive health services, including: cervical cancer screening, mammography, STI testing, safe sex counseling, influenza vaccination, TB testing, mental health screening, and substance abuse screening.
