Overview of the SEER--Medicare Health Outcomes Survey Linked Dataset

Overview

Journal Health Care Financ Rev

Specialty Health Services

Date 2008 Sep 9

PMID 18773611

Citations 71

Authors

Anita Ambs

Joan L Warren

Keith M Bellizzi

Marie Topor

Samuel C Haffer

Steven B Clauser

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Abstract

The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)--Medicare Health Outcomes Survey (MHOS) links cancer registry data with survey data from Medicare managed care enrollees. The linked file includes clinical information about the cancer with self-reported data about symptoms, functional status and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) for Medicare managed care enrollees. This article provides a description of the SEER-MHOS data as a tool to study cancer among Medicare enrollees. In order to highlight the strengths of the database, we also present some descriptive statistics from the database.

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