Using administrative data to identify and stage breast cancer cases: implications for assessing quality of care

Cases were identified with good sensitivity, specificity and positive predictive value with SDO data, with better rates than similar previously published algorithms based on Italian data. These hospital claims-based algorithms facilitate quality of care analyses for large populations when registry data are not available by identifying individual women and their subsequent use of health care services.

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Tumori. 2011 Jul-Aug;97(4):428-35. doi: 10.1700/950.10393.

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