What lessons can be learned for cancer registration quality assurance from data users? Skin cancer as an example

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 809-815

  Maudsley, Gillian ^a   Williams, E M I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data user; Data validation; Quality assurance; Skin cancer registration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER REGISTRY; DATA ANALYSIS; ERROR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELANOMA; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SKIN CANCER; SKIN METASTASIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS APPLICATIONS; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; REGISTRIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032718315     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/28.5.809     Document Type: Article

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