Annals of Epidemiology
Volume 17, Issue 8 , Pages 584-590, August 2007

A Refined Comorbidity Measurement Algorithm for Claims-Based Studies of Breast, Prostate, Colorectal, and Lung Cancer Patients

From the Health Services and Economics Branch, Applied Research Program, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD (C.N.K., J.L.W.); Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, Northfield, MN (J.M.L.); Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA (L.-M.B.); and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY (D.S.)

Received 25 October 2006; accepted 5 March 2007. published online 29 May 2007.

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PII: S1047-2797(07)00145-7

doi:10.1016/j.annepidem.2007.03.011

Annals of Epidemiology
Volume 17, Issue 8 , Pages 584-590, August 2007

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