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ArticleHealth & place2015

Comparison of estimation methods for creating small area rates of acute myocardial infarction among Medicare beneficiaries in California.

Laura C Yasaitis, Mariana C Arcaya, S V Subramanian

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Laura C YasaitisHarvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard University, 9 Bow St, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Electronic address: yasaitis@mail.med.upenn.edu.
Mariana C ArcayaDepartment of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
S V SubramanianDepartment of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

Funding

UNDERSTANDING AND IMPROVING EPISODE-BASED HOSPITAL CAREP01AG019783 · NIA · DARTMOUTH COLLEGE · PI Alistair James O'MALLEY · 2001 to 2026
$52.9M
NIA NIH HHS P01 AG019783NIA NIH HHS P01AG19783
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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 Markov Chain estimator that incorporated spatial and local random effects performed best, followed by a method-of-moments spatial Empirical Bayes estimator. As the former is more complicated and time-consuming, spatial linear Empirical Bayes methods may represent a good alternative for non-specialist investigators.

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Bayes TheoremMarkov ChainsMonte Carlo MethodAgedAged, 80 and overCaliforniaFemaleHumansMaleMedicareMyocardial InfarctionUnited StatesLocal Disease RatesMarkov ChainsMedicareMyocardial InfarctionSpatial Analysis

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PMID26291680
PMCPMC5072888

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