South African National cancer registry: Effect of withheld data from private health systems on cancer incidence estimates

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 107-109

  Singh, E ^a,b   Underwood, J M ^c   Nattey, C ^a,b   Babb, C ^a   Sengayi, M ^a,d   Kellett, P ^a  

^a NATIONAL HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICE   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; LABORATORY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PRIVATE LABORATORY; PUBLIC LABORATORY; SOUTH AFRICA; UNDER REPORTING; AGED; INCIDENCE; NEOPLASMS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGED; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84928258814     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: 20785135     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7196/SAMJ.8858     Document Type: Article

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