Using hospital discharge abstract data to identify incident breast cancer cases and assess quality of care
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Introduction This study assesses the feasibility of using hospital discharge data to identify women with incident breast cancer, and it evaluates the use of these data to assess compliance with an indicator of quality of care. The study’s goals are to: 1) compare breast cancer case-finding algorithms based upon ICD-9 CM codes found in hospital discharge data with cancer registry data and 2) compare the utility of these algorithms for use with a selected quality indicator.
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