Identification of skin cancer screening visits by using claims data
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Identification of patients with nonmelanoma skin cancer using health maintenance organization claims data.
Cancer registries usually exclude nonmelanoma skin cancers (NMSC), despite the large population affected. Health maintenance organization (HMO) and health system administrative databases could be used as sampling frames for ascertaining NMSC. NMSC patients diagnosed between January 1, 1988, and December 31, 2007, from such defined US populations were identified by using 3 algorithms: NMSC Inter...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0190-9622
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2019.08.053