WAERS: An application for web-assisted estimation of relative survival

Medical Informatics and the Internet in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 169-175

  Clèries, Ramon ^a,b   Valls, Joan ^a,b   Esteban, Laura ^a   Gálvez, Jordi ^a   Pareja, Laura ^a   Sanz, Xavier ^a   Alliste, Luisa ^a   Martínez, José Miguel ^c   Moreno, Víctor ^a   Bosch, Xavier ^a   Borràs, Josep Maria ^a   Ribes, Josepa Maria ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Disease registries; Hospital based cancer registries; Net survival; Population based cancer registries; Reference population

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DATA ANALYSIS; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; ONLINE ANALYSIS; PATIENT INFORMATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; SPAIN; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

HUMANS; INTERNET; NEOPLASMS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REGISTRIES; SPAIN; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84860417698     PISSN: 14639238     EISSN: 14645246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14639230601185575     Document Type: Article

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