Comparison with manual registration reveals satisfactory completeness and efficiency of a computerized cancer registration system

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 24-32

  Contiero, Paolo ^a   Tittarelli, Andrea ^a   Maghini, Anna ^a   Fabiano, Sabrina ^a   Frassoldi, Emanuela ^a   Costa, Enrica ^a   Gada, Daniela ^a   Codazzi, Tiziana ^a   Crosignani, Paolo ^a   Tessandori, Roberto ^b   Tagliabue, Giovanna ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b Hospital of Sondrio   (Italy)

Author keywords

Automated registration; Cancer registry; Completeness; Computer methods; Data quality; Efficiency

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; DATA PROCESSING; EFFICIENCY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

AUTOMATED REGISTRATION; CANCER REGISTRY; DATA QUALITY;

ONCOLOGY;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; DATA EXTRACTION; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ITALY; NEOPLASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMATIZED NOMENCLATURE OF MEDICINE;

DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; ITALY; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES;

EID: 37849003532     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2007.03.003     Document Type: Article

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