Identifying incident colorectal and lung cancer cases in health service utilisation databases in Australia: a validation study

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Goldsbury, David ^a   Weber, Marianne ^a   Yap, Sarsha ^a   Banks, Emily ^b   O'Connell, Dianne L ^a,c,d   Canfell, Karen ^a,c,e  

^a CANCER RESEARCH DIVISION   (Australia)

^b The Australian National University   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

45 and Up Study; Case ascertainment; Colorectal cancer; Data linkage; Hospital diagnosis; Lung cancer; Positive predictive value; Sensitivity; Specificity; Validation

Indexed keywords

AGED; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; PATIENT ATTITUDE; REGISTER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VALIDATION STUDY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; REGISTRIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 85015165063     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12911-017-0417-5     Document Type: Article

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