Is hospital discharge administrative data an appropriate source of information for cancer registries purposes? Some insights from four Spanish registries
Open Access
- 8 January 2010
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Health Services Research
- Vol. 10 (1) , 9
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-10-9
Abstract
The use of hospital discharge administrative data (HDAD) has been recommended for automating, improving, even substituting, population-based cancer registries. The frequency of false positive and false negative cases recommends local validation.Keywords
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