ReviewClinical epidemiology2017
Use of the Medicare database in epidemiologic and health services research: a valuable source of real-world evidence on the older and disabled populations in the US.
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137 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- A Systematic Review of Estimating Breast Cancer Recurrence at the Population Level With Administrative Data.Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 2020Pooled it
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- Enhancing Evidence Generation by Linking Randomized Clinical Trials to Real-World Data: The INVESTED-Medicare Linkage Study.Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics · 2026Article
- Aphasia among Medicare fee for service beneficiaries: initial encounter for services and discharge disposition.Aphasiology · 2026Article
- Mismatch Between the Distribution of Neuromuscular Specialists and Myasthenia Gravis Patients in the US Medicare Fee-for-Service Population.Muscle & nerve · 2026Article
- Assessing the quality of electronic health record data and the claims linked data for target trial emulation studies.JAMIA open · 2026Article
- Dihydropyridine Calcium Channel Blocker-induced Prescribing Cascades: Signal Detection using High-throughput Sequence Symmetry Analysis.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Evaluating Cardiovascular Devices Using Observational Analyses.Circulation · 2026Review
- Augmenting fact and date of death in electronic health records using internet media sources: a validation study from two large healthcare systems.American journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
- Linkage of Medicare insurance claims to police-reported motor vehicle crashes: advancing traffic safety research in older adult populations.Injury epidemiology · 2026Article
- Tobacco Exposure and Risk of Developing Fuchs Endothelial Corneal Dystrophy in the Women's Health Initiative Studies.Ophthalmology science · 2026Article
- Cadmium Exposure and Incidence of All-Cause Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease in US Adults.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Utilization Patterns and Costs of Ocular Amniotic Membrane Grafts in the Medicare Population.Ophthalmology · 2026Article
- Sex differences in location of initial diagnosis and discharge destination among medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries with post-stroke aphasia.Frontiers in stroke · 2026Article
- Real-World Economic Outcomes of Patients with Localized Prostate Cancer Treated with External Beam Radiation Therapy or Radical Prostatectomy.Journal of health economics and outcomes research · 2026Article
- Longitudinal patterns of antidepressant and benzodiazepine use associated with injurious falls in older adults with depression: a retrospective cohort study.BMC medicine · 2025Article
- Heterogeneous effects of sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors compared to dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors on nephrolithiasis in older adults with type 2 diabetes.Pharmacotherapy · 2025Article
- The association between duration of metformin and sulfonylurea treatment and microvascular complications in patients with incident type 2 diabetes: a pooled cohort analysis.Journal of diabetes and metabolic disorders · 2025Article
- Osteoporosis medication use over time in the United States and Canada.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2025Article
77 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
Medicare is the federal health insurance program for individuals in the US who are aged ≥65 years, select individuals with disabilities aged <65 years, and individuals with end-stage renal disease. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services grants researchers access to Medicare administrative claims databases for epidemiologic and health outcomes research. The data cover beneficiaries' encounters with the health care system and receipt of therapeutic interventions, including medications, procedures, and services. Medicare data have been used to describe patterns of morbidity and mortality, describe burden of disease, compare effectiveness of pharmacologic therapies, examine cost of care, evaluate the effects of provider practices on the delivery of care and patient outcomes, and explore the health impacts of important Medicare policy changes. Considering that the vast majority of US citizens ≥65 years of age have Medicare insurance, analyses of Medicare data are now essential for understanding the provision of health care among older individuals in the US and are critical for providing real-world evidence to guide decision makers. This review is designed to provide researchers with a summary of Medicare data, including the types of data that are captured, and how they may be used in epidemiologic and health outcomes research. We highlight strengths, limitations, and key considerations when designing a study using Medicare data. Additionally, we illustrate the potential impact that Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services policy changes may have on data collection, coding, and ultimately on findings derived from the data.
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