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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Clin Epidemiol. 2010 Dec 16;64(6):687–700. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2010.09.006

Table 1. Description of studies arranged by publication year.

Year Author Data source Sample size Age Sex
2001 Earle et al. [8] Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Tumor Registry 6,232 65+ Both
2003 Rascati et al. [37] Texas Medicaid population 2,885 21-66 Both
2004 Goldman et al. [32] HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study (HCSUS) 2,013 24-49 Both
2004 Salkever et al. [35] Schizophrenia Care and Assessment Program (SCAP) 937 18+ Both
2005 Wang et al. [26] PACE 22,890 65+ Both
2006 Salkever et al. [34] SCAP 336 18+ Both
2006 Brookhart et al. [15] Pharmaceutical Assistance Contract for the Elderly (PACE) 49,919 65+ Both
2006 Schneeweiss et al. [23] PACE 37,650 65+ Both
2006 Yoo et al. [27] Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) 4,338 65+ Both
2006 Zeliadt et al. [28] SEER Tumor Registry 31,643 65-85 Male
2007 Costanzo et al. [29] Acutely Decompensated Heart Failure National Registry (ADHERE) data base 99,963 Average 72.6 Both
2007 Schneeweiss et al. [21] Population from British Columbia 37,241 65+ Both
2008 Ikeda et al. [33] Nationally representative of Japan 192,457 20+ Both
2008 Lu-Yao et al. [19] SEER Tumor Registry 19,271 74-79 Male
2008 Park et al. [31] IOWA Medicaid population 36,585 0-12 Both
2008 Schneeweiss et al. [36] Premier Perspective Comparative Database 25,784 18+ Both
2008 Setoguchi et al. [22] Population from British Columbia 37,241 65+ Both
2008 Zhang et al. [38] Marketscan Data (private pharmaceutical claims data) 933 17-64 Both
2009 Bosco et al. [16] Breast Cancer Treatment Effectiveness in Older Women (BOW) cohort 539 65+ Female
2009 Cain et al. [39] Multicenter AIDS cohort 614 Average 35 Male
2009 Dudl et al. [17] Kaiser Permanente 170,024 55+ Both
2009 Groenwold et al. [18] Computerized Utrecht General Practitioner Database 60,000 65+ Both
2009 Ramirez et al. [20] Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Patterns Study (DOPPS) 2,393 62+ Both
2009 Shetty et al. [24] Health care utilization project's nationwide inpatient sample Nationally representative sample (No exact sample size) 65+ Both
2009 Stuart et al. [25] Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS)-Medicare population 3,101 65+ Both
2009 Tentori et al. [30] DOPPS 38,006 Average 60 Both