Identifying Incident Cancer Cases in Medicine Dispensing Claims: A Validation Study Using Australia’s Pharmaceutical Scheme (PBS) Data
Introduction Dispensing claims are used commonly as proxy measures in pharmacoepidemiological studies, however, their validity is often untested. Objectives and Approach We quantified the level of ascertainment and potential biases arising when using dispensing claims to identify incident cancer...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Swansea University
2020-12-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Population Data Science |
| Online Access: | https://ijpds.org/article/view/1459 |