Comparability of cancer identification among Death Registry, Cancer Registry and Hospital Discharge Registry

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 131, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2085-2093

  Ji, Jianguang ^a   Sundquist, Kristina ^a   Sundquist, Jan ^a,b   Hemminki, Kari ^a,c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

cancer death; Cancer Registry; Death Registry; Hospital Discharge Registry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BONE CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RESEARCH; CAUSE OF DEATH; CAUSE OF DEATH REGISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DEATH REGISTRY; ETHNIC GROUP; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE REGISTRY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIVER CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; REGISTRATION; SWEDISH;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT DISCHARGE; REGISTRIES; SURVIVAL RATE; SWEDEN;

EID: 84865563842     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.27462     Document Type: Article

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