Comparison of New Zealand Cancer Registry data with an independent lung cancer audit

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 121, Issue 1276, 2008, Pages 29-41

  Stevens, Wendy ^a   Stevens, Graham ^a   Kolbe, John ^a   Cox, Brian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG LOBECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; NEW ZEALAND; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AGE FACTORS; CANCER CARE FACILITIES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MEDICAL AUDIT; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEW ZEALAND; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY CONTROL; REGISTRIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SELECTION BIAS;

EID: 46149108608     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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