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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Claims database"”.
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Mesothelioma in South Africa 3 decades post peak of asbestos production an analysis of a claims database of asbestos ex-miners
… claimants registered on an asbestos compensation database hosting the largest number of black asbestos ex-miners of all case series published in South Africa to date. The aim was to describe the demography and the epidemiology of the disease amongst those who had been diagnosed with mesothelioma …
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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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Cardiovascular Disease: Prevention and Management
… second, using a large administrative insurance claims database, will estimate whether the risk of VTE in post-menopausal women on hormone therapy is reduced with statin exposure. The third project is a community intervention to improve health outcomes of recently-discharged heart failure …
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Healthcare Resource Utilization in Persons with Sickle Cell Disease
… associated with SCD. An observational database analysis was conducted using information from a large administrative claims database. Individuals continuously enrolled in a tracked health plan during the period from January 1, 2012 through December 31, 2012, were eligible for inclusion …
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Retrospective analysis of treated prevalence, psychiatric comorbidity prevalence, and healthcare utilization and expenditures in commercially insured children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder
… utilization and expenditures. A commercial claims database was utilized to address all aims. Prevalence rates were generated for 819 ZIP3 regions, and a generalized linear model (GLM) was used to explain geographic variation in prevalence. Aims two and three were addressed in a separate …
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An Examination of Trends in the Rates of Low-Value Opioids Prescribed for Acute Low Back Pain in Rural vs. Non-Rural Virginia
… cohort study, we examined insurance claims from the Virginia All-Payer Claims Database for adults continuously enrolled in Medicaid, Medicare Advantage, or commercial plans from 2019 to 2021. We used the Milliman MedInsight Health Waste Calculator to identify low-value claims and …
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Total and Disease Specific Resource Use and Healthcare Cost of Patients with Glaucoma
… vision loss worsens, but few have included drug claims. The primary objective of this study was to characterize the overall and disease-related healthcare resource use, including drug utilization, and cost associated with treatment and care provided to glaucoma patients. <bold>Methods</bold> A …
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Impact of Cost Sharing Levels on Adherence to Controller Drugs and Consequent Outcomes among Asthma Patients
… analysis using the MarketScan administrative claims database was conducted for the years 2000 and 2001. Asthma patients that were stepped up to dual controller therapy in the study period and had no diagnosis for COPD or other respiratory conditions were included in the study. Study …
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Anticoagulant Treatment Effects Assessment in Antiphospholipid Syndrome Patients Using Targeted Learning and the Oracle Health EHR Data
… descriptive analyses using the IQVIA national claims database document a 40 percent rise in APS incidence between 2019 and 2024, pronounced geographic and socioeconomic disparities in diagnosis, and a 50- to 60-fold drug cost differential favoring warfarin over DOACs — findings that …
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Three essays on health economics and international trade
… behaviour. Using Florida data on closed med-mal claims, I find that if physicians have prior paid claims, their current litigation is resolved faster and is associated with less cost. Having a prior payout does not significantly predict the likelihood or the amount of the current payout. This …
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Health Care Resource Utilization and Expenditures in Persons with Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease
… associated with ADPKD. An observational database analysis of a privately insured population was conducted using information from a large administrative claims database. Individuals 18 years of age or older and enrolled in a tracked health plan anytime during the period from April 1, 2011 …
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Essays on the Economics of Insurance and Healthcare Markets
… private payers---the Massachusetts All-Payer Claims Database. With these data, I ask how the change in reimbursement from one payer affects the probability that a physician performs a C-section on patients insured by that payer and by other payers. I use a difference-in-differences strategy …
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Advancements in Management Science: Applications to Online Retail, Healthcare, and Non-Profit Fundraising
… presents a retrospective cohort study using the claims database from Independence Blue Cross to determine the relative efficacy and adverse event rates between different categories of antibiotics. By combining causal inference techniques with automated feature extraction using the Observational …
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Prescribing patterns of antiretroviral drugs in the private health care sector in South Africa : a drug utilisation review
… care sector in South Africa by using a medicine claims database. A quantitative, retrospective drug utilisation review was performed. The data ranging from 1 January 2001 to 31 December 2001, 1 January 2002 to 31 December 2002, and 1 January 2004 to 31 December 2004 were used, dividing each year …