Benchmarking commercial healthcare claims data.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Commercial healthcare claims datasets represent a sample of the US population that is biased along socioeconomic/demographic lines; depending on the target population of interest, results derived from these datasets may not generalize. Rigorous comparisons of claims-derived results to ground-truth data that quantify this bias are lacking.

Objectives

(1) To quantify the extent and variation of the bias associated with commercial healthcare claims data with respect to different target populations; (2) To evaluate how socioeconomic/demographic factors may explain the magnitude of the bias.

Design

This is a retrospective observational study. Healthcare claims data come from the Merative^™ MarketScan^® Commercial Database; reference data for

SUBMITTER: Dahlen A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11370529 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature