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Vasa – European Journal of Vascular Medicine – Special Issue on "Health Insurance Claims Data in Vascular Research and Quality Improvement"

Health insurance claims data (HIC) and other administrative data sources recently regain the attention of the scientific community in vascular medicine. Advantages and limitations of HIC, as an important part of the real-world-evidence, are controversially discussed. Their quality and comparability are likely to improve over time if researchers continue using and validating these data and not just dismissing them because of known limitations. The guest editors of the Special Issue will be Dr. Christian-Alexander Behrendt, MD, and Professor Art Sedrakyan, MD, PhD.

This Special Issue will combine contemporary reviews and original research studies addressing the advantages and limitations of health insurance claims data and comparable administrative data.

Preliminary topics include:

• Comparative outcome studies on vascular treatments (e.g., abdominal aortic aneurysm, carotid artery disease, peripheral arterial disease) using health insurance claims data
• Studies or study protocols illuminating the internal or external validity of claims data
• Systematic literature reviews on available validation studies in claims-based research
• Development or validation of risk scores or classifications utilizing claims data
• Combination or cross-linking of claims data with other data sources (e.g., registry data)
• Device-related or drug-related studies using health insurance claims data
• Studies illuminating the outpatient treatment of vascular diseases utilizing claims data
• Volume-outcome analyses using claims data

We invite you to contribute original manuscripts to "Health Insurance Claims Data in Vascular Research and Quality Improvement" based on your research related to the above-mentioned topics. The final submission deadline for review articles is May 1st, 2019. The final deadline for submission of research articles is July 1st, 2019. Manuscripts submitted after the due date will not be accepted for this Special Issue.

To avoid overlap of topics, please first send the tentative title of your manuscript to the Guest Editors at ch.behrendt@uke.de and ars2013@med.cornell.edu as well as the editor-in-chief at acreutzig@onlinehome.de. When you are ready to submit your article, please go to www.editorialmanager.com/vasa/default.aspx and choose the Article Type "Special Issue: Claims Data".

Please note that all manuscripts will go through a thorough peer review process and acceptance to this Special Issue is not guaranteed. Thank you.

We are a looking forward to the submissions for the Special Issue of Vasa – European Journal of Vascular Medicine.

Special Issue Editors
Dr. Christian-Alexander Behrendt, MD, Department of Vascular Medicine
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

Prof. Art Sedrakyan, MD, PhD, Healthcare Policy and Weill Cornell Medical College
New York City, United States

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. med. Andreas Creutzig
Hannover, Germany