ArticleMedical care2009
Mortality ascertainment of women veterans: a comparison of sources of vital status information, 1979-2002.
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- Weight change trends and overall survival in United States veterans with follicular lymphoma treated with chemotherapy.Leukemia & lymphoma · 2017Article
- Statins Are Associated With Reduced Mortality in Multiple Myeloma.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2016Article
- Comparative effectiveness of anthracycline-containing chemotherapy in United States veterans age 80 and older with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.Journal of geriatric oncology · 2015Article
- Association between metformin use and progression of monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance to multiple myeloma in US veterans with diabetes mellitus: a population-based retrospective cohort study.The Lancet. Haematology · 2015Article
- A review of data quality assessment methods for public health information systems.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2014Review
- Influence of body mass index on survival in veterans with multiple myeloma.The oncologist · 2013Article
- Increased body mass index is associated with improved survival in United States veterans with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2012Article
- Associations of disease activity and treatments with mortality in men with rheumatoid arthritis: results from the VARA registry.Rheumatology (Oxford, England) · 2011Article
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Abstract
backgroundTo support health research on the unique cohort of women with a history of military service, this study assessed the completeness of mortality ascertainment for Texas women veterans in Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and non-VA databases.
methodsWe examined female veteran-specific mortality ascertainment comparing the VA Beneficiary Identification and Records Locator Subsystem Death File (BIRLS DF), VA Patient Treatment Files (PTF), and Social Security Administration-Death Master File (SSA-DMF) with Texas death certificate data. Databases were deterministically cross-linked, using female sex and social security numbers. Deterministic and probabilistic linkage methods were also compared.
resultsOf 6,297 decedents identified by death certificates, SSA-DMF, BIRLS DF, and PTF databases identified 97.5% collectively and 94%, 77%, and 5% individually. Compared with Texas death certificates, sensitivity of VA and SSA databases improved with increasing age.
conclusionsThis study highlights that although the VA and SSA administrative databases have less complete ascertainment for younger decedents, combined these electronic databases provide nearly complete ascertainment for women veterans. Challenges related to large female-specific cross-linkage studies are explored, and a need to examine methods for female-specific health research studies in the general population is identified.
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