Validation of Claims Data Algorithms to Identify Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer
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Validation of claims data algorithms to identify nonmelanoma skin cancer
Health maintenance organization (HMO) administrative databases have been used as sampling frames for ascertaining nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC). However, because of the lack of tumor registry information on these cancers, these ascertainment methods have not been previously validated. NMSC cases arising from patients served by a staff model medical group and diagnosed between 1 January 2007 an...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Investigative Dermatology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0022-202X
DOI: 10.1038/jid.2012.98