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Evaluation of data quality in the cancer registry: Principles and methods Part II. Completeness.
D. Max Parkin,Freddie Bray +1 more
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This second instalment of a two-part review of data quality methods at the cancer registry focuses on the principles and techniques available for estimating completeness, separating methods into those that are semi-quantitative -- in that they give an indication of the degree of completeness relative to other registries or over time, and more quantitative techniques -- those that provide a numerical evaluation.About:
This article is published in European Journal of Cancer.The article was published on 2009-03-01. It has received 417 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cancer registry & Population.read more
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Estimating cancer incidence based on claims data from medical insurance systems in two areas lacking cancer registries in China.
Hongrui Tian,Wei Yang,Yanjun Hu,Zhen Liu,Lei Chen,Liang Lei,Fan Zhang,Fen Cai,Huawen Xu,Mengfei Liu,Chuanhai Guo,Yun Chen,Ping Xiao,Junhui Chen,Ping Ji,Zhengyu Fang,Fangfang Liu,Ying Liu,Yaqi Pan,Isabel dos-Santos-Silva,Zhonghu He,Yang Ke +21 more
TL;DR: Interpretation MIS-CASS efficiently reflects cancer burden in real-time, and has the potential to provide insight for improvement of cancer surveillance in China.
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Audit of A Nationwide Pathology-based Cancer Registry in Iran
TL;DR: Content of message had the greatest effect on the public motivation to donate and among factors related to the media, transmission process, and among the perceived aspects of the message, “social norms” and “reliability and credibility” had significant effect onThe success of the SMS message to increase peoples’ willingness to donate for cancer patients.
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Radiation Records in the National Cancer Database: Variations in Coding and/or Practice Can Significantly Alter Survival Results
Corbin D. Jacobs,David Carpenter,Julian C. Hong,Laura J. Havrilesky,Julie Ann Sosa,Junzo Chino +5 more
TL;DR: The overwhelming majority of RT data within the NCDB seem to be appropriate for the clinical scenario, but approximately one eighth of participants in this test clinical scenario had adjuvant RT data that were internally inconsistent or outside generously defined norms.
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Evaluation of data quality at the National Cancer Registry of Ukraine
Anton Ryzhov,Freddie Bray,Jacques Ferlay,Z.P. Fedorenko,Liudmyla Goulak,Yevgeniy Gorokh,Olena Soumkina,Ariana Znaor +7 more
TL;DR: While timely reporting of national data reflects the advantages of a mandatory data collection system, a low DCO% and observed age-specific declines suggest possible underreporting of incidence and mortality data, particularly at older ages.
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Cancer survival and excess mortality estimates among adolescents and young adults in Western Australia, 1982-2004: a population-based study.
Fatima Haggar,Fatima Haggar,Gavin Pereira,Gavin Pereira,David D. Preen,C. D'Arcy J. Holman,Kristjana Einarsdóttir +6 more
TL;DR: Marked progressive calendar-time improvement in overall outcomes was evident and further research is required to disentangle the contributions of tumour biology and health service factors to outcome disparities between ethno-demographic, geographic and socioeconomic subgroups of adolescents and young adults with cancer.
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