Completeness of case ascertainment in a Scottish regional cancer registry for the year 1992

Public Health

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 339-343

  Brewster, D H ^a   Crichton, J ^a   Harvey, J C ^a   Dawson, G ^a  

^a Scottish Cancer Intelligence Unit   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data collection; Medical record linkage; Neoplasms; Quality control; Registries

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER REGISTRY; CASE FINDING; CHILD; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL RECORD; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; REGISTER; SKIN TUMOR; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0030820141     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0033-3506(97)00065-6     Document Type: Article

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