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Warranty Data Analysis: A Review [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Warranty claims and supplementary data contain useful information about product quality and reliability. Analysing such data can therefore be of benefit to manufacturers in identifying early warnings of abnormalities in their products, providing useful ...
Ahn   +97 more
core   +1 more source

Defining hip fracture with claims data: outpatient and provider claims matter [PDF]

open access: yesOsteoporosis International, 2017
Medicare claims are commonly used to identify hip fractures, but there is no universally accepted definition. We found that a definition using inpatient claims identified fewer fractures than a definition including outpatient and provider claims. Few additional fractures were identified by including inconsistent diagnostic and procedural codes at ...
S D, Berry   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Robust bootstrap procedures for the chain-ladder method [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Insurers are faced with the challenge of estimating the future reserves needed to handle historic and outstanding claims that are not fully settled. A well-known and widely used technique is the chain-ladder method, which is a deterministic algorithm. To
Peremans, Kris   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Optimal Indicator of Death for Using Real-World Cancer Patients' Data From the Healthcare System

open access: yesFrontiers in Pharmacology, 2022
Background: Information on patient’s death is a major outcome of health-related research, but it is not always available in claim-based databases. Herein, we suggested the operational definition of death as an optimal indicator of real death and aim to ...
Suk-Chan Jang   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Management of Children and Adolescents with Chest Trauma in Pediatric and Non-Pediatric Departments—A Claims Data Analysis

open access: yesChildren, 2023
Background: To investigate the management of children and adolescents with isolated and combined chest trauma in pediatric (PD) and non-pediatric departments (non-PD).
Peter Zimmermann   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

The science of psychoanalysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
For psychoanalysis to qualify as scientific psychology, it needs to generate data that can evidentially support theoretical claims. Its methods, therefore, must at least be capable of correcting for biases produced in the data during the process of ...
Lacewing, Michael
core   +1 more source

Mortality Differences Between Traditional Medicare and Medicare Advantage: A Risk-Adjusted Assessment Using Claims Data. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Medicare Advantage (MA) has grown rapidly since the Affordable Care Act; nearly one-third of Medicare beneficiaries now choose MA. An assessment of the comparative value of the 2 options is confounded by an apparent selection bias favoring MA, as ...
Beveridge, Roy A.   +7 more
core   +2 more sources

Comprehensive Building Fire Risk Prediction Using Machine Learning and Stacking Ensemble Methods

open access: yesFire
Building fires pose a critical threat to life and property. Therefore, accurate fire risk prediction is essential for effective building fire prevention and mitigation strategies.
Seungil Ahn   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effectiveness of Mammography Screening on Breast Cancer Mortality – A Study Protocol for Emulation of Target Trials Using German Health Claims Data

open access: yesClinical Epidemiology, 2022
Malte Braitmaier,1 Bianca Kollhorst,1 Miriam Heinig,2 Ingo Langner,2 Jonas Czwikla,3 Franziska Heinze,3 Laura Buschmann,4 Heike Minnerup,4 Xabiér García-Albéniz,5,6 Hans-Werner Hense,4 André Karch,4 Hajo Zeeb,7,8 Ulrike Haug,2,8 Vanessa Didelez1,9 ...
Braitmaier M   +13 more
doaj  

Long-term Symptomatic, Functional, and Work Outcomes of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome among Construction Workers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
BACKGROUND: The long-term outcomes of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) including symptoms, functional status, work disability, and economic impact are unknown. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective study of 234 active construction workers with medical claims
Amick   +36 more
core   +2 more sources

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