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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"SEER Medicare"”.
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Case-control studies of vaginal and vulvar cancers and gynecologic screening: A SEER-Medicare analysis
… national population-based linked databases: the Medicare data set supported by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) and the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results Registries (SEER) data set sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The study cases included female Medicare …
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Statistical Modeling of Longitudinal Medical Cost Data
… the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)-Medicare linked database.</p>
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Hospital and Medical Care Days in Pancreatic Cancer
… Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)-Medicare linked data, we identified 25,476 patients with pancreatic cancer (1992-2005). Hospital and medical care days per person-month from the time of diagnosis were described, stratified by stage, treatment, and survival duration. Results: …
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Trends and Comparative Effectiveness in Treatment of Stage IV Colorectal Adenocarcinoma
… and Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)-Medicare linked data to evaluate the current management in older patients presenting with stage IV colorectal cancer, including receipt of chemotherapy, type of chemotherapy, resection of the primary tumor, and the management of liver …
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Impact of Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 4 and 6 Inhibitors on Chemotherapy Utilization and Overall Survival in Women with HR+/HER2– Metastatic Breast Cancer in the United States
… therapy during 2010-2019 were selected from the SEER- Medicare database. The proportion of chemotherapy use was summarized quarterly based on the date of treatment initiation separately in the first, second, and third lines. Segmented regression models, adjusted for autocorrelation over time, …
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Comparing Different Methods of Applying Propensity Score in Controlling Selection Bias for Studies of Prostate Cancer
… Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Medicare database 1992-2007 was used for this research in which we studied two scenarios. In scenario 1, the overall mortality and cause-specific mortality for patients with local prostate cancer receiving active treatment (radical …
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Population-based outcomes in pancreatic cancer: Improvements in survival, underutilization of surgical resection for early stage disease, and regionalization of care
… the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) population-based tumor registry, demonstrated that survival in patients with pancreatic cancer has improved over the last decade. The improvement in survival can be, in part, attributed to the increased resection rates seen over the same time …
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Novel Immunotherapy Agents in Oncology: Generalizability of Trial Results and Drivers of Clinical Utilization
… first objective of this dissertation used the SEER-Medicare linked database with claims data from 2014-2016 to conduct two aims analyzing potential disparities between Medicare beneficiaries on active treatment for melanoma and lung cancer and Medicare clinical trial participants. Aim one …
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Three Ways Social Factors Stratify Individual Choices About Organizations
… financially. Chapters 1 and 2 use data from the SEER-Medicare linked database to demonstrate the relationship between chooser (patient) demographics, at both the individual and neighborhood levels, on the likelihood of choosing a "high-status" cancer hospital in California. Chapter 1 does this in …
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Impact of Diabetes on Colorectal Cancer Outcomes
… and stage at diagnosis of CRC in elderly Medicare beneficiaries; to check the association of diabetes with presenting as an emergency condition for CRC surgery in the elderly and; to explore the effect of diabetes on survival of elderly Medicare beneficiaries with CRC. Using the …
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Time to surgery and thyroid cancer survival in the United States
… focusing on disease specific survival using SEER-Medicare data as well as data from the National Cancer Database to analyze whether a delay in surgical intervention leads to a decrease in mortality in patients with papillary thyroid cancer. This study focuses on specific thyroid cancer …
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Commonly used medications and survival from ovarian cancer
… issues. Methods: These cohort studies utilized SEER-Medicare data on women 66+ years of age diagnosed with ovarian cancer during 2007-2012 who were enrolled in Medicare parts A, B and D during the year after diagnosis. Use of the medications of interest (statins, antihypertensives [including …
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Mesauring The Effect Of Technological Change In Health Care Cost And Expenditure
… observational historical data. The subjects are Medicare enrolled individuals aged 65 or above who were diagnosed with prostate cancer from 1991 to 2002. SEER Medicare-linked database is used in the study. In Chapter 2, I present a long run view of health care spending growth. Spending associated …