Reproducibility, reliability and validity of population-based administrative health data for the assessment of cancer non-related comorbidities

Patients with comorbidities do not receive optimal treatment for their cancer, leading to lower cancer survival. Information on individual comorbidities is not straightforward to derive from population-based administrative health datasets. We described the development of a reproducible algorithm to...

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Published in:	PloS one Vol. 12; no. 3; p. e0172814
Main Authors:	Maringe, Camille, Fowler, Helen, Rachet, Bernard, Luque-Fernandez, Miguel Angel
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Public Library of Science 06.03.2017 Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subjects:	Algorithms Analysis Breast cancer Cancer Cancer therapies Care and treatment Chemotherapy Chronic obstructive lung disease Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Comorbidity Complications and side effects Data collection Diagnosis England - epidemiology Epidemiology Female Health Hospitals Humans Hygiene Laryngeal cancer Longitudinal Studies Lung cancer Lung diseases Male Medical diagnosis Medical prognosis Medical records Medical research Medicine Medicine and Health Sciences Mortality Neoplasms - epidemiology Neoplasms - mortality Obstructive lung disease Patients People and places Physical Sciences Population Population Surveillance Population-based studies Proportional Hazards Models Reliability analysis Reproducibility Reproducibility of Results Research and Analysis Methods Researchers Retrospective Studies Studies Validity United Kingdom
ISSN:	1932-6203, 1932-6203
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