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Sensitivity of NCMS claims in identifying cancer patients in 2017
| Variables | Anyang Cancer Hospital | Hua County People’s Hospital | |||||||
| n (%) | Correctly
identified |
Sensitivity
[% (95% CI)] |
P | n (%) | Correctly
identified |
Sensitivity
[% (95% CI)] |
P | ||
| EMR, electronic medical records; 95% CI, 95% confidence interval; *, Lung cancer, stomach cancer, esophageal cancer, liver cancer and breast cancer are classified as common cancer sites. | |||||||||
| Total | 1,200
(100.0) |
1,142 | 95.2
(93.8, 96.3) |
300
(100.0) |
276 | 92.0
(88.3, 94.8) |
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| Age (year) | 0.345 | 0.454 | |||||||
| <65 | 753
(62.8) |
720 | 95.6
(93.9, 97.0) |
153
(51.0) |
139 | 90.8
(85.1, 94.9) |
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| ≥65 | 447
(37.2) |
422 | 94.4
(91.9, 96.3) |
147
(49.0) |
137 | 93.2
(87.8, 96.7) |
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| Gender | 0.994 | 0.184 | |||||||
| Male | 496
(41.3) |
472 | 95.2
(92.9, 96.9) |
126
(42.0) |
119 | 94.4
(88.9, 97.7) |
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| Female | 704
(58.7) |
670 | 95.2
(93.3, 96.6) |
174
(58.0) |
157 | 90.2
(84.8, 94.2) |
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| EMR cancer site | 0.242 | 0.003 | |||||||
| Common* | 905
(75.4) |
865 | 95.6
(94.0, 96.8) |
162
(54.0) |
156 | 96.3
(92.1, 98.6) |
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| Other | 295
(24.6) |
277 | 93.9
(90.5, 96.3) |
138
(46.0) |
120 | 87.0
(80.2, 92.1) |
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