Reproducibility, reliability and validity of population-based administrative health data for the assessment of cancer non-related comorbidities
Abstract
Background 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 extract the individual Charlson index comorbidities from such data. We illustrated the algorithm with 1,789 laryngeal cancer patients...
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Title
Reproducibility, reliability and validity of population-based administrative health data for the assessment of cancer non-related comorbidities
Published Date
Mar 6, 2017
Journal
Volume
12
Issue
3
Pages
e0172814 - e0172814
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