<p>Baseline Demographic and Clinical Characteristics of Patients with Lung Cancer in Texas

A 13.5 KB Excel file containing baseline demographic and clinical characteristics of lung cancer patients in Texas and California. The dataset compares patient profiles before and after the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). It was authored by Oluwasegun Akinyemi and last updated on April 9,我们发现了一个问题，在输出中，summary的第一句没有遵守规则。它没有以数字、专有名词或具体名词开头。我需要重写它。

Use Cases

• Analyze shifts in patient demographics based on the pre- and post-ACA comparison mentioned in the description
• Compare clinical characteristics of lung cancer patients between Texas and California
• Study potential effects of policy changes on access to care for lung cancer patients

Strengths

• Explicitly focuses on a key policy event (ACA implementation) for temporal comparison
• Provides a comparative geographic scope (Texas and California)
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• The dataset is very small (13.5 KB), indicating limited scope

Provenance

Source

figshare, authored by Oluwasegun Akinyemi

Collection Method

Likely compiled from clinical or administrative records, as inferred from the description.

Time Range

Covers periods before and after the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-09 17:39:06; freshness should be verified

Geography

Texas and California, United States