Evidence map›Paper›PMID 30647546›Full record

ReviewClinics in colon and rectal surgery2019

Truven Health Analytics MarketScan Databases for Clinical Research in Colon and Rectal Surgery.

Audrey S Kulaylat, Eric W Schaefer, Evangelos Messaris, Christopher S Hollenbeak

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Review in Clinics in colon and rectal surgery, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 69 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

69 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Audrey S KulaylatDepartment of Surgery, Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania.
Eric W SchaeferDepartment of Public Health Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania.
Evangelos MessarisBeth Israel Deaconess, Boston, Massachusetts.
Christopher S HollenbeakDepartment of Public Health Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The MarketScan databases are a family of administrative claims databases that contain data on inpatient and outpatient claims, outpatient prescription claims, clinical utilization records, and healthcare expenditures. The three main databases available for use are each composed of a convenience sample for one of the following patient populations: (1) patients with employer-based health insurance from contributing employers, (2) Medicare beneficiaries who possess supplemental insurance paid by their employers, and (3) patients with Medicaid in one of eleven participating states. Eleven supplemental databases are available, which are utilized to overcome the limited clinical data available in the core MarketScan databases. There are several limitations to this database, primarily related to the fact that individuals or their family members within two of the core databases mandatorily possess some form of employer-based health insurance, which prevents the dataset from being nationally representative. Nonetheless, this database provides detailed and rigorously maintained claims data to identify healthcare utilization patterns among this cohort of patients.

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colorectal surgeryhealth insuranceTruven MarketScan

Identifiers

PMID30647546
PMCPMC6327721

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