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Showing 1 to 20 of 72 for “"Claims data"”.
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Subgrouping Ulcerative Colitis Patients using Administrative Claims Data
… implementation to generate a cohort from a dataset in the OMOP Common Data Model (CDM), propose a patient timeline visualization tool, create and analyze a cohort of Ulcerative Colitis patients using a claims dataset. We extract patient features and use dimensionality reduction techniques …
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Data-driven approach to health care : applications using claims data
Large population health insurance claims databases together with operations research and data mining methods have the potential of significantly impacting health care management. In this thesis we research how claims data can be utilized in three important areas of health care and medicine and …
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Predicting Kidney Transplantation Using Prior Disease Diagnosis From Medicare Claims Data
… earlier than traditional methods. I use medical claims data to determine common risk factors of all patients who have received a kidney transplant. For the control group I include all patients who have not received a kidney transplant. I used a binary logistic regression utilizing common risk …
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Clinical trend discovery and analysis of Taiwanese health insurance claims data
Data-driven analysis can improve our understanding of medicine, and data from electronic health records and labs has been used successfully in predictive tasks. Less advanced analysis has been done on health insurance claims data, which can be rich and more structured but large in scale. Taiwan has …
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Medication Cost and Utilization in Hospice Care: An Analysis of 2007 Claims Data
… of hospices in Ohio and compare it with NHPCO data.</p><p> 2. Identify and analyze therapeutic drug classes and medications with the most frequent utilization rates and largest percentage of expenditures in hospice care.</p><p> Method:</p><p> Hospice Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBM) employ …
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Development and Comparative Predictive Validity of an Outpatient Medication Exposure Measure for Risk Adjustment Using Retrospective Claims Data
The purpose of this study was to develop and test a measure of outpatient prescription utilization (medication exposure measure, or MEM) that may be coupled with the CMS-HCC and CMS-RxHCC methodologies to improve risk-adjusted payments to Medicare Part C and Part D plans. Studies have identified …
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Quality of care and drug surveillance : a data-driven perspective
… thesis, we describe the use of medical insurance claims data in three important areas of medicine. First, we develop expert- trained statistical models of quality of care based on variables derived from insurance claims. Such models can be used to identify patients who are receiving poor care so …
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Quantifying the patient population of ultra-orphan diseases: a case study in X-Linked Hypohidrotic Ectodermal Dysplasia
… 1 in 1,500). However, incidence and prevalence data for orphan diseases in scientific literature is poorly studied, inconsistent, numbers range widely and articles often contain poorly supported citations. Additionally, once a treatment is available and disease awareness increases, there may be …
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Changes in Healthcare Utilization and Charges Among Supportive Housing Residents Enrolled in a Health Coaching Program
… We utilized retrospective longitudinal medical claims data and a qualitative examination of participants' perceptions of the program's influence on their healthcare use. Zero-inflated negative binomial model and log-gamma models were used to assess change in count variables and charged amounts …
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ASSOCIATION BETWEEN CONCOMITANT USE OF BISPHOSPHONATES AND SEROTONIN REUPTAKE INHIBITORS AND INCREASED RISK OF OSTEOPOROTIC-RELATED FRACTURES: AMONG COMMUNITY-DWELLING POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN
… cross-sectional analyses were performed using data from the 2004-2008 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) and Medicare Part D prescriptions claims data (2008-2010) to examine usage patterns of BPs and SSRIs/SNRIs for women aged ≥45 years and ≥65 years, respectively. For our second …
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Is Optimum Time to Coronary Artery bypass Surgery Associated With Hospital Teaching Status and Payer Source? A Comparison of Outcomes and Costs Among Non St Segment Elevated Myocardial Infarction Patients and St Segment Elevated Myocardial Infarction Patients
… segment elevated AMI (NSTEMI) using secondary claims data. </p> <p>Objective: This research investigates in-hospital costs to treat patients with NSTEMI by analyzing a.) the association between cost and payer source and b.) the association between cost and time to CABG. </p> <p>Methods: A …
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Evaluating diagnostic and treatment modalities in the management of benign prostatic hyperplasia in the Veterans Administration population
… be validated by tracking BPH patients using VA claims data.
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Prevalence of cannabis use and behavioral health conditions among primary care patients with and without chronic non-cancer pain in Washington state
… care patients screened for cannabis use. EHR and claims data from 25 primary care clinics were used. Chi-squared tests tested for differences between patients with and without CNCP. Adjusted fixed effects logistic regression models were used to estimate the prevalence of past-year cannabis use, …
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Post-acute care transitions for adults with serious mental illness
… location of care. In Chapter One, I use Medicare claims data to examine the extent to which observed pathways to hospitals’ high volume SNF partners differ for patients with versus without SMI. I find that patients with SMI experience inequitable access to their originating hospitals’ network of …
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Data Mining for Signal Detection of Targeted Therapy Related Drug Toxicity in Breast Cancer Patients
Application of signal detection methods using claims data can improve post-marketing drug surveillance. The aim of this study is to compare two routinely used approaches, the proportional reporting ratio (PRR) and Gamma Poisson Shrinker (GPS) with a tree-based scan statistic (TBSS). Using data from …
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Data Mining for Signal Detection of Targeted Therapy Related Drug Toxicity in Breast Cancer Patients
Application of signal detection methods using claims data can improve post-marketing drug surveillance. The aim of this study is to compare two routinely used approaches, the proportional reporting ratio (PRR) and Gamma Poisson Shrinker (GPS) with a tree-based scan statistic (TBSS). Using data from …
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Diabetes mellitus and hospital utilization in the province of Manitoba 1991/1992
… compromised by the absence of population-based data. This study used population-based Manitoba Health Claims data to measure diabetes prevalence, hospital utilization and mortality for the fiscal year 1991-92. A cohort of 45,117 persons with diabetes were identified, of whom 20,496 (45%) were …
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Data Mining and Causal Analyses: A Healthcare Operations Approach to Understanding the Patient Journey
… intersects traditional operations management and data analytics with clinical applications to provide insight into the patient journey – the process of how patient seek and receive care from the healthcare system. In the first section of the thesis, we empirically analyze the beginning stage of …
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A Distance-Based Clustering Framework for Categorical Time Series: A Case Study in Episodes of Care Healthcare Delivery System
… billing codes in Perinatal Episodes of Care claims data to study the extent of that variation by equating it to the number of reproducible clusters found. This research proposes a methodological framework to detect reproducible clusters in an unsupervised problem where the true number of …
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