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SUBMITTER: Yasaitis LC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5072888 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yasaitis Laura C LC Arcaya Mariana C MC Subramanian S V SV
Health & place 20150915
Creating local population health measures from administrative data would be useful for health policy and public health monitoring purposes. While a wide range of options--from simple spatial smoothers to model-based methods--for estimating such rates exists, there are relatively few side-by-side comparisons, especially not with real-world data. In this paper, we compare methods for creating local estimates of acute myocardial infarction rates from Medicare claims data. A Bayesian Monte Carlo Mar ...[more]