Reliability of collecting colorectal cancer stage information from pathology reports and general practitioners in Queensland

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 378-382

  Krnjacki, Lauren J ^a   Baade, Peter D ^a,b   Lynch, Brigid M ^a   Aitken, Joanne F ^a,b  

^a VIERTEL CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN CANCER CONTROL   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KAPPA STATISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PATHOLOGY; RELIABILITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DATA COLLECTION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUEENSLAND; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVORS;

EID: 50449086633     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2008.00259.x     Document Type: Article

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