Evaluating Mammography Claims Data

Freeman, Jean L.

Abstract

Funding Agency

• Agency: National Institute of Health (NIH)
• Institute: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• Type: Research Project (R01)
• Project #: 1R01CA072076-01
• Application #: 2115542
• Study Section: VA Health Services Research and Development Scientific Merit Review Board (HSRD)
• Project Start: 1996-06-01
• Project End: 1999-05-31
• Budget Start: 1996-06-01
• Budget End: 1997-05-31
• Support Year: 1
• Fiscal Year: 1996

Institution

• Name: University of Texas Medical Br Galveston
• Department: Internal Medicine/Medicine
• Type: Schools of Medicine
• DUNS #: 041367053
• City: Galveston
• State: TX
• Country: United States
• Zip Code: 77555

Publications

Mahnken, Jonathan D; Chan, Wenyaw; Freeman Jr, Daniel H et al. (2008) Reducing the effects of lead-time bias, length bias and over-detection in evaluating screening mammography: a censored bivariate data approach. Stat Methods Med Res 17:643-63

Tan, Alai; Freeman, Jean L; Freeman Jr, Daniel H (2007) Evaluating health care performance: strengths and limitations of multilevel analysis. Biom J 49:707-18

Tan, Alai; Freeman Jr, Daniel H; Goodwin, James S et al. (2006) Variation in false-positive rates of mammography reading among 1067 radiologists: a population-based assessment. Breast Cancer Res Treat 100:309-18

Geraci, Jane M; Escalante, Carmen P; Freeman, Jean L et al. (2005) Comorbid disease and cancer: the need for more relevant conceptual models in health services research. J Clin Oncol 23:7399-404

Freeman, Jean L; Goodwin, James S; Zhang, Dong et al. (2003) Measuring the performance of screening mammography in community practice with Medicare claims data. Women Health 37:1-15

Randolph, Whitney M; Mahnken, Jonathan D; Goodwin, James S et al. (2002) Using Medicare data to estimate the prevalence of breast cancer screening in older women: comparison of different methods to identify screening mammograms. Health Serv Res 37:1643-57

Randolph, Whitney M; Goodwin, James S; Mahnken, Jonathan D et al. (2002) Regular mammography use is associated with elimination of age-related disparities in size and stage of breast cancer at diagnosis. Ann Intern Med 137:783-90

Zhang, Dong D; Zhou, Xia-Hua; Freeman Jr, Daniel H et al. (2002) A non-parametric method for the comparison of partial areas under ROC curves and its application to large health care data sets. Stat Med 21:701-15

Virnig, Beth A; Warren, Joan L; Cooper, Gregory S et al. (2002) Studying radiation therapy using SEER-Medicare-linked data. Med Care 40:IV-49-54

Freeman, Jean L; Klabunde, Carrie N; Schussler, Nicola et al. (2002) Measuring breast, colorectal, and prostate cancer screening with medicare claims data. Med Care 40:IV-36-42