Validity of registry data: Agreement between cancer records in an end-stage kidney disease registry (voluntary reporting) and a cancer register (statutory reporting)

Nephrology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 491-501

  Webster, Angela C ^a,b,c   Supramaniam, Rajah ^d   O'Connell, Dianne L ^d   Chapman, Jeremy R ^c   Craig, Jonathan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c CANCER RESEARCH DIVISION   (Australia)

^d Australia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant Registry   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cancer; Dialysis; Epidemiology and outcomes; Registry; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANDATORY REPORTING; MELANOMA; MYELOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARDIZATION; VALIDITY; VOLUNTARY REPORTING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NEW ZEALAND; REGISTER; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VALIDATION STUDY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AUSTRALIA; DATA COLLECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MANDATORY REPORTING; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS; NEW ZEALAND; REGISTRIES; RENAL DIALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952905250     PISSN: 13205358     EISSN: 14401797     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1797.2010.01297.x     Document Type: Article

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