Is hospital discharge administrative data an appropriate source of information for cancer registries purposes? Some insights from four Spanish registries
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Is hospital discharge administrative data an appropriate source of information for cancer registries purposes? Some insights from four Spanish registries
BACKGROUND The use of hospital discharge administrative data (HDAD) has been recommended for automating, improving, even substituting, population-based cancer registries. The frequency of false positive and false negative cases recommends local validation. METHODS The aim of this study was to detect newly diagnosed, false positive and false negative cases of cancer from hospital discharge cla...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Health Services Research
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1472-6963
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-10-9