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White Box Warning: Language matters in overcoming bias in healthcare

White paper, grey literature, black box warning. The nature of our medical research, presentation, reporting, and publication has defined the values associated with colors. A white paper is defined as an “authoritative” report on a subject. Grey literature is described as being “non-conventional, fugitive, and sometimes ephemeral.” And a “black box” warning alerts physicians and… Read More »

Using claims to measure disease prevalence

By | August 24, 2017

Bias in claims data with respect to disease status is a problem for health services researchers, because we often rely on administrative claims (billing data) to measure disease status for large cohorts. Misclassification bias may alter the prevalence of given conditions–which is especially problematic for epidemiology and comparative effectiveness research. It may even alter the… Read More »