Estimating the Esophagus Cancer Incidence Rate in Ardabil, Iran: A Capture-Recapture Method

Estimating the Esophagus Cancer Incidence Rate in Ardabil, Iran: A Capture-Recapture Method

BACKGROUND Accurate cancer registry and awareness of cancer incidence rate is essential in order to define strategies for cancer prevention and control programs. Capture-recapture methods have been recommended for reducing bias and increase the accuracy of cancer incidence estimation. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to estimate the esophagus cancer incidence by capture-recapture method based on A...

Estimating the completeness of gastric cancer registration in Ardabil/Iran by a capture-recapture method using population-based cancer registry data.

BACKGROUND Knowledge of cancer incidences is essential for cancer prevention and control programs. Capture-recapture methods have been recommended for reducing bias and increasing the accuracy of cancer incidence estimations. This study aimed to estimate the completeness of gastric cancer registration by the capture-recapture method based on Ardabil population-based cancer registry data. MATE...

Estimation of Maternal Mortality Rate in Iran from 2010 to 2014 Using Capture-Recapture Method

Estimation of Maternal Mortality Rate in Iran from 2010 to 2014 Using Capture-Recapture Method Ayat Ahmadi 1, Bahareh Yazdizadeh 2, Alireza Zemestani 3* 1Assistant professor of Epidemiology, Knowledge Utilization Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2Associate professor of Epidemiology, Knowledge Utilization Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Science...

An Estimation of Drug-Related Deaths in Iran, Using the Capture-Recapture Method (2014-2016)

Capture–Recapture Method for Estimating Annual Incidence of Imported Dengue, France, 2007–2010

Imported dengue cases pose the public health risk for local circulation in European areas, especially southeast France, where the Aedes mosquito is established. Using a capture-recapture method with Chao's estimator, we estimated the annual incidence of dengue fever and the completeness of existing mandatory notification and laboratory network surveillance systems. During 2007-2010, >8,300 case...