Using hospital discharge files to enhance cancer surveillance

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 27-34

  Penberthy, Lynne ^a   McClish, Donna ^a   Pugh, Amy ^b   Smith, Wally ^a   Manning, Claudine ^a   Retchin, Sheldon ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Hospital records; Neoplasms; Population surveillance; Registries

Indexed keywords

CANCER; DOCUMENTARY SOURCE; HEALTH MONITORING; MEASUREMENT METHOD;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER REGISTRY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RECORD;

AGED; DATA COLLECTION; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL RECORDS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT DISCHARGE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REGISTRIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRGINIA;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037867996     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwg108     Document Type: Article

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