OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this workshop are to describe various types of linkable
clinical and administrative claims data, review selected case studies, and highlight the …

Insurance claims and cancer registries represent different sources of data, each with
advantages and limitations insofar as describing severity of illness, cost, utilization, and …

Objectives Accurately measuring the cost of illness is critical to understanding the financial
burden of Medicare beneficiaries with concurrent diabetes and cancer. This study aimed to …

The results of the Klabunde et al study1 highlight the challenge we face in measuring
comorbid illness from various data sources, none of which represents a true gold standard …

Health care payers and policy makers need information about the cost and effectiveness of
medical treatments. While randomized controlled trials historically are the primary source of …

Despite their potential utility, clinicians are skeptical about claims data as a substrate for
clinical research. Clinicians' concerns are centered on two issues—the quality of the data …

OBJECTIVES: The cost and management of patients with multiple chronic conditions
present unique challenges to the health care system. Major chronic conditions such as …

This chapter provides a review and discussion of the analytic challenges faced by studies
that use existing administrative databases and patient registries. We provide additional …

Background: Data infrastructure for cancer research is centered on registries that are often
augmented with payer or hospital discharge databases, but these linkages are limited. A …

This Health Services Research article describes how administrative and health records
(including electronic medical records) can be linked for comparative effectiveness and …