Availability and quality of industry and occupation information in the Massachusetts Cancer Registry

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 98-106

  Ewis, Ashraf A ^a   Kondo, Kazuya ^a   Lee, Juwon ^a   Tsuyuguchi, Masaru ^b   Hashimoto, Masato ^c   Yokose, Tomoyuki ^d   Mukai, Kiyoshi ^e   Kodama, Tetsurou ^f   Shinka, Toshikatsu ^a   Monden, Yasumasa ^b   Nakahori, Yutaka ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b TOKUSHIMA PREFECTURAL CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c Iwamizawa Rousai Hospital   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^g MINIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Availability; Cancer registry; Detail; I O codes; Industry and occupation; Medical record; Record review

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL RECORD; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; FEMALE; FORMS AND RECORDS CONTROL; HUMANS; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; REGISTRIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0034941491     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.1076     Document Type: Article

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