Identifying Cancer-Directed Surgeries in Medicare Claims: A Validation Study Using SEER-Medicare Data.

CONCLUSION: Identifying patients who underwent a cancer-directed surgery from Medicare claims is feasible for many cancer sites, although careful consideration needs to be given to the validity of each site. Our findings support the use of Medicare claims for large-scale quality assessment of cancer surgery by disease site.
PMID: 30715928 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Clinical Genitourinary Cancer - February 1, 2019 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Lavery JA, Lipitz-Snyderman A, Li DG, Bach PB, Panageas KS Tags: JCO Clin Cancer Inform Source Type: research