Using routinely collected health data to investigate the association between ethnicity and breast cancer incidence and survival: What is the impact of missing data and multiple ethnicities?

Ethnicity and Health

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 201-212

  Downing, Amy ^a   West, Robert M ^a,b   Gilthorpe, Mark S ^a   Lawrence, Gill ^c   Forman, David ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

Author keywords

breast cancer; ethnicity; incidence; multiple imputation; survival

Indexed keywords

ASIAN IMMIGRANT; CANCER; DISEASE INCIDENCE; HEALTH RISK; HEALTH SURVEY; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SURVIVAL;

ARTICLE; ASIA; BREAST TUMOR; CAUCASIAN; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MORTALITY; REGISTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM;

ASIA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; REGISTRIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

SOUTH ASIA;

EPINEPHELUS AENEUS;

EID: 79958724185     PISSN: 13557858     EISSN: 14653419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13557858.2011.561301     Document Type: Article

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