Cancer recording and mortality in the General Practice Research Database and linked cancer registries

Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 168-175

  Boggon, Rachael ^a,b   Van Staa, Tjeerd P ^a,b,c   Chapman, Michael ^d   Gallagher, Arlene M ^a,b   Hammad, Tarek A ^e   Richards, Mike A ^d  

^a MEDICINES AND HEALTHCARE PRODUCTS REGULATORY AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d Portland House   (United Kingdom)

^e CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cancer registry; Data quality; Electronic health records; Hospital data; Pharmacoepidemiology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONVENIENCE SAMPLE; DEATH CERTIFICATE; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTICE RESEARCH DATABASE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LEUKEMIA; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MELANOMA; MOUTH CANCER; MYELOMA; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; REFERENCE DATABASE; STOMACH CANCER; TESTIS CANCER; URINARY TRACT CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERUS CANCER; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84873460062     PISSN: 10538569     EISSN: 10991557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pds.3374     Document Type: Article

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