Identifying suicidal behavior among adolescents using administrative claims data

Suicidal behavior and contagion among hospitalized adolescents.

Prevalence, Correlates, and Treatment of Lifetime Suicidal Behavior Among Adolescents

Results: The estimated lifetime prevalences of suicide ideation, plans, and attempts among the respondents are 12.1%, 4.0%, and 4.1%, respectively. The vast majority of adolescents with these behaviors meet lifetime criteria for at least one DSM-IV mental disorder assessed in the survey. Most temporally primary (based on retrospective age-of-onset reports) fear/anger, distress, disruptive behav...

Accuracy of administrative claims data for polypectomy.

BACKGROUND The frequency of polypectomy is an important indicator of quality assurance for population-based colorectal cancer screening programs. Although administrative databases of physician claims provide population-level data on the performance of polypectomy, the accuracy of the procedure codes has not been examined. We determined the level of agreement between physician claims for polypec...

Identifying couples in administrative data

We develop a new method for identifying married couples in administrative data. Using address and name data from the universe of employment records in Germany we find around 3.3Mio. pairs of individuals who are living at the same location, have a matching last name and are less than 15 years apart in age. We show supporting evidence that around 89 to 94% of these pairs are indeed married couple...

Data Mining of Administrative Claims Data for Pathology Services

Australia has a universal health insurance scheme called Medicare. Medicare payments for pathology services generate voluminous transaction data on patients, doctors and pathology laboratories. The Health Insurance Commission (HIC) currently uses predictive models to monitor compliance with regulatory requirements. The HIC commissioned a project to investigate the generation of new features fro...