Comunidad en enfermedades crónicas

BACKGROUND:: Large administrative datasets such as Medicare and Medicaid claims have much potential utility in clinical and comparative effectiveness (CE) studies. Among their advantages are the inclusion of clinically heterogeneous populations, without exclusions typical in clinical trials; the ability to study extremely large study populations with power to examine differential outcomes across individual drugs, treatment effect modification, and the risk of uncommon outcomes. However, claims data by themselves are subject to many limitations, notably, in ...