American Heart Journal
Volume 157, Issue 6 , Pages 995-1000, June 2009

Linking inpatient clinical registry data to Medicare claims data using indirect identifiers

  • Bradley G. Hammill, MS

      Affiliations

    • Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC
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  • Adrian F. Hernandez, MD, MHS

      Affiliations

    • Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC
    • Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC
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  • Eric D. Peterson, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC
    • Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC
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  • Gregg C. Fonarow, MD

      Affiliations

    • University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
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  • Kevin A. Schulman, MD

      Affiliations

    • Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC
    • Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC
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  • Lesley H. Curtis, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC
    • Department of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Lesley H. Curtis, PhD, Center for Clinical and Genetic Economics, Duke Clinical Research Institute, PO Box 17969, Durham, NC 27715.

Received 16 January 2009; accepted 3 April 2009.

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 This work was supported by grant U18HS10548 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (Rockville, MD) and a research agreement between GlaxoSmithKline (Research Triangle Park, NC) and Duke University (Durham, NC). Dr Hernandez is a recipient of an American Heart Association Pharmaceutical Roundtable grant (0675060N). Drs Curtis and Schulman were supported in part by grants U01HL066461 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and R01AG026038 from the National Institute on Aging. Dr Fonarow is supported by the Ahmanson Foundation (Beverly Hills, CA) and the Corday Family Foundation (Los Angeles, CA). The OPTIMIZE-HF registry is registered at clinicaltrials.gov as study number NCT00344513.

 David J. Cohen, MD, MSc served as guest editor on this manuscript.

PII: S0002-8703(09)00269-5

doi:10.1016/j.ahj.2009.04.002

American Heart Journal
Volume 157, Issue 6 , Pages 995-1000, June 2009

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