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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Identification of Ovarian Cancer Symptoms in Health Insurance Claims Data



Conclusions:
"These results support previous findings that ovarian cancer symptoms were reported in health insurance claims and were more prevalent before diagnosis, but the symptoms may occur too close to the diagnosis date to provide useful diagnostic information. The passive screening approach should be reevaluated in the future using electronic medical records; if found to be effective, the method may be potentially useful for other incident diseases."