60: Conducting Survival Analysis in SAS using Medicare Claims as a Real-world Data Source

Music City Center 

Applications of Survival analysis as a statistical technique extend to longitudinal studies, and other studies in health research. The SAS/STAT package contains multiple procedures for performing and running a survival analysis. The most well-known of these are PROC LIFETEST and PROC PHREG. As a data source, Medicare claims are often used in Real-world evidence studies and observational research. In this paper, survival analysis and the SAS procedures for performing it will be explored and survival analyses will be conducted using Medicare claims data sets to assess patient's prognosis amongst Medicare beneficiaries.

SAS

Survivial Analysis

Medicare

Claims Data

Real World Data 

Health Policy Statistics Section