A record linkage process of a cervical cancer screening database

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 90-101

  Freire, Sergio Miranda ^a   Almeida, Rosimary Terezinha de ^b   Cabral, Maria Deolinda Borges ^c   Bastos, Ediane de Assis ^b   Souza, Rômulo Cristovão ^a   Silva, Mariá Gonçalves Pereira da ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO BRASILEIRO DE GEOGRAFIA E ESTATÍSTICA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Database integration; Public health information systems; Record linkage

Indexed keywords

CERVICAL CANCERS; DATABASE INTEGRATION; HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RECORD LINKAGE;

CYTOLOGY; HISTOLOGY;

DATA HANDLING;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BRAZILIAN CERVICAL CANCER INFORMATION SYSTEM; CANCER SCREENING; CYTOLOGY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL RECORD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84865712256     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: 18727565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2012.01.007     Document Type: Article

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