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Quality control in cancer registries: a new approach for Ror-Sul
Sónia Dória Nóbrega , Carlos Daniel Paulino > Statistical Review - 3rd Four-month 2001 > INE, 2001, p. 9 - 31

Summary

In this study we develop a prediction model to detect observations with high probability of data accuracy errors with impact on quality of epidemiological measures produced by ROR-Sul. Logistic regression was used to obtain the model and its reproducibility was evaluated by means of sensibility and specificity. The results identified predicting factors of registry errors; however, the model’s reproducibility indicate that, if there is no way to reach better sensitivities, this method of predicting cancer errors is neither efficient nor profitable.

keywords: cancer registry; quality control; accuracy; data validity; data reliability.


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