Linking the Ohio Cancer Incidence Surveillance System with Medicare, Medicaid, and Clinical Data from Home Health Care and Long Term Care Assessment Instruments: Paving the Way for New Research Endeavors in Geriatric Oncology.

This study describes the Ohio Cancer-Aging Linked Database, which mirrors in structure the linked Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End-Results (SEER)-Medicare files, but also incorporates data from Medicaid enrollment and claims files, the home health care (HHC) Outcome Assessment Information Set (OASIS), and the long term care (LTC) Minimum Data Set (MDS). This article also discusses the potential uses of this database, particularly in addressing new research questions emerging from the nascent and rapidly developing field of geriatric oncology.