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Fig. 5

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

Fig. 5

Disease- and treatment-related impairment of freedom in relation to the cancer type. Disease- and treatment-related impairment of freedom are shown based on the time expenditure in each classification group due to the number of days required for inpatient stays (- ■ -), the number of outpatient treatments in hospital (- □ -), the number of visits to a pharmacy (- • -), and the number of visits to a primary-care physician (- ▲ -) or specialist (- Δ -) beginning four quarters (4Q) before and ending eight quarters (8Q) after the index quarter. All visits by the patients within a cancer classification group were taken into account. A shows the time expenditure of the NSCLC patients due to illness and treatment, (B) that of the SCLC patients, and (C) of the unclassifiable incidental patients. The index quarter is indicated by the dashed vertical line (-—-). Q: quarter

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