Completeness and validity in a national clinical thyroid cancer database: DATHYRCA

Completeness and validity in a national clinical thyroid cancer database: DATHYRCA

Highlights • Data in registries should be validated and completeness assessed. • This study investigates completeness and validation of the data from a clinical database of thyroid cancer. • Data in the DATHYRCA database are reliable. • Prospective databases require cross linking for maintaining com...

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Published in:Cancer epidemiology Vol. 38; no. 5; pp. 633 - 637
Main Authors: Londero, Stefano Christian, Mathiesen, Jes Sloth, Krogdahl, Annelise, Bastholt, Lars, Overgaard, Jens, Bentsen, Jens, Hahn, Christoffer Holst, Schytte, Sten, Pedersen, Henrik Baymler, Christiansen, Peer, Godballe, Christian
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Elsevier Ltd 01-10-2014
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Elsevier Limited
Subjects:
Acquisitions & mergers
Agreement
Agreements
Analysis. Health state
Biological and medical sciences
Breast cancer
Cancer
Cohort Studies
Completeness
Confidence intervals
Databases, Factual - standards
Databases, Factual - statistics & numerical data
Denmark - epidemiology
Epidemiology
Family medical history
General aspects
Head & neck cancer
Hematology, Oncology and Palliative Medicine
Histology
Humans
Internal Medicine
Medical research
Medical sciences
Morphology
Mortality
National registry
Pathology
Patients
Prospective Studies
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Registration
Registries
Thyroid cancer
Thyroid carcinoma
Thyroid Neoplasms - epidemiology
Thyroid Neoplasms - pathology
Tumors
Validation
Validity
Denmark
Validation
Validity
Agreement
Completeness
National registry
Database
Epidemiology
Thyroid carcinoma
Endocrinopathy
Thyroid diseases
Malignant tumor
Thyroid cancer
Register
Cancer
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Summary:Highlights • Data in registries should be validated and completeness assessed. • This study investigates completeness and validation of the data from a clinical database of thyroid cancer. • Data in the DATHYRCA database are reliable. • Prospective databases require cross linking for maintaining completeness.
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ISSN:1877-7821
1877-783X
DOI:10.1016/j.canep.2014.07.009