Accuracy of claims-based algorithms for epilepsy research: Revealing the unseen performance of claims-based studies.
Lidia M V R MouraMaggie PriceAndrew J ColeDaniel B HochJohn HsuPublished in: Epilepsia (2017)
Current approaches for identifying patients with epilepsy in insurance claims have important limitations when applied to the general population. Approaches incorporating a range of information, for example, diagnoses, treatments, and site of care/specialty of physician, improve the performance of identification and could be useful in epilepsy studies using large datasets.