title: Overview of the SEER--Medicare Health Outcomes Survey linked dataset.
abstract: The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)--Medicare Health Outcomes Survey (MHOS) links cancer registry data with survey data from Medicare managed care enrollees. The linked file includes clinical information about the cancer with self-reported data about symptoms, functional status and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) for Medicare managed care enrollees. This article provides a description of the SEER-MHOS data as a tool to study cancer among Medicare enrollees. In order to highlight the strengths of the database, we also present some descriptive statistics from the database.
authors.affiliation: National Cancer Institute (NCI), Bethesda, MD 20892-7344, USA. ambsa@mail.nih.gov
authors.forename: Anita
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ambs
authors.forename: Joan L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Warren
authors.forename: Keith M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Bellizzi
authors.forename: Marie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Topor
authors.forename: Samuel C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Haffer
authors.forename: Steven B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Clauser
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D015331:Cohort Studies; D015897:Comorbidity; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003628:Database Management Systems; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000592:standards*; D008498:Medical Record Linkage; D006278:Medicare / Q000592:standards*; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000145:classification / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011788:Quality of Life; D018426:SEER Program; D018434:Sickness Impact Profile; D017741:Survivors / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology
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