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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 16.
Published in final edited form as: Epidemiol Res Int. 2012;2012:970406. doi: 10.1155/2012/970406

Table 3.

Validation of metastases algorithm comparison of hazard ratio (HR) of metastasis for primary androgen deprivation (PADT) versus surveillance using all claims versus hospital claims.

Cancer risk PADT events/person-year Rate per 100 Surveillance events/person-year Rate per 100 Unadjusted HR (95% CI) Adjusted HR (95% CI)
Conventional cox multivariate results Metastasis (use all claims)*

Low risk 1147/40804 2.8 1627/100346 1.6 1.77 (1.64–1.91) 1.62 (1.49–1.75)
High risk 1163/21546 5.4 457/12888 3.5 1.53 (1.37–1.70) 1.65 (1.47–1.85)
All risk 2310/62351 3.7 2084/113234 1.8 2.05 (1.93–2.17) 1.66 (1.55–1.77)

Metastasis (use hospital claims only)*

Low risk 309/43083 0.7 428/103651 0.4 1.79 (1.55–2.08) 1.65 (1.41–1.92)
High risk 373/22752 1.6 160/13465 1.2 1.39 (1.16–1.67) 1.55 (1.27–1.88)
All risk 682/65835 1.0 588/117116 0.5 2.13 (1.91–2.38) 1.64 (1.46–1.85)
*

ICD-9 198.5 or 198.3 or 197.0 or 197.7.