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Table 2 Treating institution or physician. The table shows the institution or physician that coded the diagnosis for each classification group. The percent figures express the proportion of patients coded by each “therapist” category. A hierarchy was defined to avoid patients being assigned to multiple categories (see also Supplemental file 3)

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

%

Hospital

inpatient

Hospital

outpatient

Other physician

Unknown

Total

NSCLC

81.2

4.7

9.9

2.2

100.0

(98.0)

SCLC

74.3

5.1

18.2

0.0

100.0

(97.6)

Unclassifiable

81.8

2.9

12.1

1.5

100.0

(98.3)