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Fig. 3

From: Use of algorithms for identifying patients in a German claims database: learnings from a lung cancer case

Fig. 3

Coded treatments. A gives an overview of the therapeutic measures in the overall analysis population, including those patients who could not be observed in line, for whom none of the defined therapies were documented, or who received second-line therapy (late therapy). The proportion of the total population who received or did not receive the respective therapy and/or measure is expressed in percent. B Comparison of the use of drug therapy and radiotherapy in relation to the classification group. The percent figures indicate the proportion of patients within the respective cancer-type population for whom the listed therapy was coded. n indicates the number of patients who were assigned to each cancer type or the group of unclassifiable patients. The patients were assigned to the respective therapies hierarchically. C Percent of patients for whom a surgical intervention was coded, using the cancer type and the coded first-line therapy. n indicates the number of patients who were assigned both to the respective cancer type and to the listed therapy based on the coding. BK: bronchoscopy, n.c.: not classifiable

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