Development and validation of coding algorithms to identify patients with incident lung cancer in United States healthcare claims data.

Julie BeyrerDavid R NelsonKristin M SheffieldYu-Jing HuangTim EllingtonAna L Hincapie

Published in: Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety (2020)

In this dataset, a practical point-based algorithm for identifying incident lung cancer demonstrated significant and substantial improvement (7.9% and 23.9% absolute improvement in sensitivity and PPV, respectively) compared with a current standard.

Keyphrases

machine learning
healthcare
cardiovascular disease
deep learning
big data
health insurance
artificial intelligence
type diabetes
health information