Venous thromboembolism (VTE) and thrombocytopenia are frequently encountered
complications in patients with cancer. Although there are several studies evaluating the …

Purpose Phenotype algorithms are central to performing analyses using observational data.
These algorithms translate the clinical idea of a health condition into an executable set of …

Abstract Background: The US Health Retirement Study (HRS) is an ongoing population-
representative cohort of US adults ages> 50 with rich data on health during aging. Self …

Objective To evaluate the accuracy of identifying cancer patients by use of medical claims
data in a health insurance system in China, and provide the basis for establishing the claims …

Background: The integration of data from disparate sources could help alleviate data
insufficiency in real-world studies and compensate for the inadequacies of single data …

Background Cancer and dementia are becoming increasingly common co-occurring
conditions among older adults. Yet, the influence of participant cognitive status on the …

Background: We conducted a study to assess whether testosterone therapy (TT) alters
prostate cancer risk using a large US commercial insurance research database. Methods …

Abstract Purpose The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) mandated the
transition from ICD‐9 to ICD‐10 codes on October 1, 2015. Postmarketing surveillance of …

Background and aims Most cancer patients require surgery for diagnosis and treatment. This
study evaluated whether cancer is a risk factor for perioperative arterial ischaemic events …

PURPOSE To create an algorithm to identify incident epithelial ovarian cancer cases in
claims-based data sets and evaluate performance of the algorithm using SEER-Medicare …