Abstracts tagged "Claims data and Rheumatoid Arthritis"

Abstract Number: 924 • 2012 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Methods to Link a U.S. Arthritis Cohort with Medicare Administrative Claims Data
Jeffrey R. Curtis¹, Lang Chen², Timothy Beukelman³, Aseem Bharat⁴, Fenglong Xie⁵, Kenneth G. Saag⁶ and Elizabeth S. Delzell⁷, ¹Rheumatology & Immunology, Univ of Alabama-Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ³Pediatric Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁴Medicine/Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁵Rheumatology & Immunology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁶Div Clinical Immun & Rheum, Univ of Alabama-Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ⁷Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: Linkages between clinical and administrative data may provide a valuable resource for pharmacoepidemiologic and health services research. Objective To describe methods and validity of…