Validation of a Medicare Claims-based Algorithm for Identifying Breast Cancers Detected at Screening Mammography
Tracy Onega, Rebecca Smith‐Bindman, Louise M. Henderson, Brian L. Sprague, Rebecca A. Hubbard, Zhu, Weiwei, Joshua J. Fenton, Karla M. Kerlikowske, Steven Balch · Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) · 2020
The breast cancer detection rate is a benchmark measure of screening mammography quality, but its computation requires linkage of mammography interpretive performance information with cancer incidence data. A Medicare claims-based measure of detected breast cancers could simplify measurement of this benchmark and facilitate mammography quality assessment and research.