The data quality of haematological malignancy ICD-10 diagnoses in a population-based Hospital Discharge Registry

European Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 201-206

  Norgaard M ^a,b,c   Skriver, M V ^a   Gregersen, H ^c   Pedersen, G ^c   Schonheyder H C ^c   Sorensen H T ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b VANDERBILT INGRAM CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Data quality; Discharge diagncsis; Epidemiology; Haematological malignancies; Survival

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; DENMARK; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DENMARK; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; QUALITY CONTROL; REGISTRIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 20344376692     PISSN: 09598278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00008469-200506000-00002     Document Type: Article

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