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Fig. 2

From: Comparison of methods to identify long term care nursing home residence with administrative data

Fig. 2

Sensitivity and positive predictive value (PPV) of methods 2 and 3 for identifying a long term care (LTC) stay, as a function of the number of days identified by each method that are also identified with Medicaid data. The sensitivities and PPVs shown in Table 2 were generated with the rule that there was at least one day of overlap between the LTC episode identified by a method and an episode identified using Medicaid claims. The sensitivities of both methods decline as the number of days of required overlap with Medicaid increases. There are smaller declines in the PPVs

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