Validation of Administrative Data Sources for Endoscopy Utilization in Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis Short title: Validation of Administrative Data for Endoscopy
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Short title: Validation of Administrative Data for Endoscopy Xue Li 1 MPH, Robert Hilsden 2 MD, Shakhawat Hossain 3* Ph.D., John Fleming 1 B.Sc., and Marcy Winget 1,3 Ph.D. 1. Division of Community Oncology, Cancer Care, Alberta Health Services, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 2. Department of Community Health Sciences and Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary Alberta Canada 3. Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada * Current affiliation is Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Winnipeg
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