An audit of colon cancer data on the New Zealand cancer registry

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 121, Issue 1279, 2008, Pages 46-56

  Cunningham, Ruth ^a   Sarfati, Diana ^a   Hill, Sarah ^a   Kenwright, Diane ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b WELLINGTON HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER STATISTICS; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEW ZEALAND; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADULT; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; REGISTRIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 50449108336     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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