作者
Joan L Warren, Carrie N Klabunde, Deborah Schrag, Peter B Bach, Gerald F Riley
发表日期
2002/8/1
来源
Medical care
卷号
40
期号
8
页码范围
IV-3-IV-18
出版商
LWW
简介
Background.
The Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER)-Medicare–linked database combines clinical information from population-based cancer registries with claims information from the Medicare program. The use of this database to study cancer screening, treatment, outcomes, and costs has grown in recent years.
Research Design.
This paper provides an overview of the SEER-Medicare files for investigators interested in using these data for epidemiologic and health services research. The overview includes a description of the linkage of SEER and Medicare data and the files included as part of SEER-Medicare. The paper also describes the types of research projects that have been undertaken using the SEER-Medicare data. The overview concludes with a comparison of selected characteristics of elderly persons residing in the SEER areas to the US total aged.
Results.
The paper identifies a …
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