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| STEVEN THOMAS FLEMINGSummaryAffiliation: University of Kentucky Country: USA Publications
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Defining care provided for breast cancer based on medical record review or Medicare claims: information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Patterns of Care StudySteven T Fleming
University of Kentucky College of Public Health, Lexington, USA
Ann Epidemiol 22:807-13. 2012..Description of care patterns is important as evidence-based guidelines increasingly dictate care. We explore the level of agreement between claims and record abstraction for guideline concordant multidisciplinary breast cancer care...
Diabetes and cancer screening rates among Appalachian and non-Appalachian residents of KentuckySteven T Fleming
Departments of Epidemiology and Family and Community Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
J Am Board Fam Med 24:682-92. 2011..The objectives of the study were to examine the relationship between diabetes and cancer screening and to determine whether Appalachia residence modifies this association...
Comorbidity as a predictor of stage of illness for patients with breast cancerSteven T Fleming
Epidemiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40536 003, USA
Med Care 43:132-40. 2005..The purpose of this research was to determine whether comorbidity affects the stage at which breast cancer is diagnosed...
Comorbidities and the risk of late-stage prostate cancerSteven T Fleming
University of Kentucky College of Public Health, Lexington, KY, USA
ScientificWorldJournal 6:2460-70. 2006..Comorbidities do affect stage at diagnosis, although in different ways. Four hypotheses are discussed to explain these findings...
Developing a claim-based version of the ACE-27 comorbidity index: a comparison with medical record reviewSteven T Fleming
Department of Epidemiology, University of Kentucky College of Public Health, Lexington, KY 40536, USA
Med Care 49:752-60. 2011..The purpose of this study was to compare the medical record-based ACE-27 instrument to a newly developed administrative claim-based ACE-27 measure...
Prevalence of colorectal cancer screening among a multimorbid rural Appalachian populationSteven T Fleming
University of Kentucky College of Public Health and the College of Medicine, Lexington, KY, USA
South Med J 104:811-8. 2011..This is the first known study to address multiple morbidities exclusively with a health-disparities population...
The development and validation of a comorbidity index for prostate cancer among Black menSteven T Fleming
Health Services Management, University of Kentucky, 121 Washington Avenue, Room 113C, Lexington, KY 40536 0003, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 56:1064-75. 2003..We demonstrated the utility of refining the simplest model, with 27 comorbidity categories only, by adjusting for the number of different diagnoses within statistically significant categories...
Patient safety in after-hours telephone medicineShersten Killip
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Kentucky, K302 Kentucky Clinic 0284, 740 S Limestone, Lexington, KY 40536 0284, USA
Fam Med 39:404-9. 2007..The research questions were (1) What are the threats to patient safety associated with after-hours telephone medicine and (2) What kinds of errors are made during after-hours telephone medicine?..
Burden of common multiple-morbidity constellations on out-of-pocket medical expenditures among older adultsNancy E Schoenberg
Department of Behavioral Science, University of Kentucky, 125 College of Medicine Office Building, Lexington, KY 40536 0086, USA
Gerontologist 47:423-37. 2007..2 chronic diseases, contributing to the over 60 million Americans with multiple morbidities. We aimed to understand the financial implications of the most frequent multiple morbidities among older adults...
Research Grants
- Breast and Prostate Cancer Patterns of Care in KentuckySteven Fleming; Fiscal Year: 2007..abstract_text> ..
