Skin cancer: how accurate are local data?
- 25 February 1995
- Vol. 310 (6978) , 503
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.310.6978.503
Abstract
The four NHS hospitals serving the Bristol and District Health Authority area have computerised histopathology systems, which were introduced around 1987. A printout of all cases of skin cancer was obtained from each hospital with a manual search for the years before computerisation. Two private hospitals were also asked to provide data. These were linked with patient identification details to provide the minimum dataset required for registration. The data were then matched against previous entries in the cancer registry.Keywords
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