A retrospective analysis to examine factors associated with mortality in Medicare beneficiaries newly diagnosed with multiple myeloma.

CONCLUSIONS: Older age, male sex, high comorbidity burden, anemia, and hypercalcemia were risk factors for death in newly diagnosed Medicare MM patients. Study limitations included non-causal observational design, non-validated MM algorithm, potential treatment misclassification, and non-availability of prognostic factors including disease staging information, biomarkers, and other laboratory variables. Additional analyses are warranted to understand the relationship between treatments and death. PMID: 27532155 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Current Medical Research and Opinion - Category: Research Tags: Curr Med Res Opin Source Type: research