Potential Delays in Diagnosis of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis in Medicare Beneficiaries

Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2019 Mar;16(3):393-396. doi: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.201806-376RL.

Authors

Joshua Mooney¹, Eunice Chang², Deepa Lalla³, Elya Papoyan², Karina Raimundo⁴, Sheila R Reddy², John Stauffer⁴, Tingjian Yan², Michael S Broder²

Affiliations

¹ 1 Stanford University Stanford, California.
² 2 Partnership for Health Analytic Research, LLC Beverly Hills, California.
³ 3 Palo Alto Outcomes Research Palo Alto, California and.
⁴ 4 Genentech, Inc. South San Francisco, California.

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Delayed Diagnosis*
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Humans
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis / diagnosis*
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis / epidemiology
Incidence
Male
Medicare / statistics & numerical data*
Prevalence
Respiratory Function Tests / methods
Retrospective Studies
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
United States / epidemiology