Open AccessIdentifying Smoking Status and Smoking Cessation Using a Data Linkage Between the Kentucky Cancer Registry and Health Claims Data
Author(s) -
M. Shayne Gallaway,
Bin Huang,
Quan Chen,
Tom Tucker,
Jaclyn K McDowell,
Eric B. Durbin,
David A. Siegel,
Eric Tai
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
jco clinical cancer informatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.188
H-Index - 12
ISSN - 2473-4276
DOI - 10.1200/cci.19.00011
Subject(s) - medicine , smoking cessation , varenicline , family medicine , cancer registry , health care , cancer , nicotine replacement therapy , medical expenditure panel survey , diagnosis code , environmental health , health insurance , population , pathology , economics , economic growth
Linkage of cancer registry data with complementary data sources can be an informative way to expand what is known about patients and their treatment and improve delivery of care. The purpose of this study was to explore whether patient smoking status and smoking-cessation modalities data in the Kentucky Cancer Registry (KCR) could be augmented by linkage with health claims data.