Are there socioeconomic gradients in the quality of data held by UK cancer registries?

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 58, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1052-1053

  Adams, Jean ^a   White, Martin ^a   Forman, David ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER; DATA MANAGEMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GRADING; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; COLORECTAL CANCER; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; QUALITY CONTROL; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; ODDS RATIO; POVERTY; PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS; REGISTRIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 9444265912     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2004.020008     Document Type: Article

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