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Completeness of cancer and death follow-up obtained through the National Health Service Central Register for England and Wales.

For the last 20 years the National Health Service Central Register (NHSCR) has been used as the principal source of follow-up for mortality, and often for cancer incidence, in many cohort and clinical follow-up studies in England and Wales. Completeness of notification of childhood cancer registrati...

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Autores principales: Hawkins, M. M., Swerdlow, A. J.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 1992
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1977803/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1503917
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description For the last 20 years the National Health Service Central Register (NHSCR) has been used as the principal source of follow-up for mortality, and often for cancer incidence, in many cohort and clinical follow-up studies in England and Wales. Completeness of notification of childhood cancer registrations and deaths from the NHSCR was investigated by comparison between cancers and deaths notified to the Childhood Cancer Research Group (CCRG) from this source and notifications received directly from regional cancer registries and the national death registry. Six thousand, seven hundred and seventy-six (91.8%) of 7,379 cancers incident 1971-84, and 588 (95.8%) of 614 deaths occurring 1953-88, were successfully notified. Failures in cancer notification occurred mainly between the regional cancer registries and the National Cancer Register (3.3%), and between the National Cancer Register and the NHSCR (3.0%). An additional 1.9% of cancer notifications failed between the NHSCR and the CCRG. Incompleteness of registration of childhood cancers by regional cancer registries was estimated to be 4.7%. A total of 12.5% of incident childhood cancers were not notified by NHSCR. Incompleteness of notification may be greater for adults, for whom registration and record linkage may be more difficult. Failures in death notifications occurred mostly because deaths entered on the NHSCR were not notified to the CCRG (3.3%). This incompleteness of notification needs to be taken into account in the interpretation of published studies and in the analysis of studies using NHSCR flagging. It also implies similar incompleteness in published national cancer survival data, which use the same system of flagging. Nevertheless it is a notable achievement that NHSCR has successfully monitored such a high proportion of a population of 50 million people, by entirely clerical procedures, for 40 years.
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spelling pubmed-19778032009-09-10 Completeness of cancer and death follow-up obtained through the National Health Service Central Register for England and Wales. Hawkins, M. M. Swerdlow, A. J. Br J Cancer Research Article For the last 20 years the National Health Service Central Register (NHSCR) has been used as the principal source of follow-up for mortality, and often for cancer incidence, in many cohort and clinical follow-up studies in England and Wales. Completeness of notification of childhood cancer registrations and deaths from the NHSCR was investigated by comparison between cancers and deaths notified to the Childhood Cancer Research Group (CCRG) from this source and notifications received directly from regional cancer registries and the national death registry. Six thousand, seven hundred and seventy-six (91.8%) of 7,379 cancers incident 1971-84, and 588 (95.8%) of 614 deaths occurring 1953-88, were successfully notified. Failures in cancer notification occurred mainly between the regional cancer registries and the National Cancer Register (3.3%), and between the National Cancer Register and the NHSCR (3.0%). An additional 1.9% of cancer notifications failed between the NHSCR and the CCRG. Incompleteness of registration of childhood cancers by regional cancer registries was estimated to be 4.7%. A total of 12.5% of incident childhood cancers were not notified by NHSCR. Incompleteness of notification may be greater for adults, for whom registration and record linkage may be more difficult. Failures in death notifications occurred mostly because deaths entered on the NHSCR were not notified to the CCRG (3.3%). This incompleteness of notification needs to be taken into account in the interpretation of published studies and in the analysis of studies using NHSCR flagging. It also implies similar incompleteness in published national cancer survival data, which use the same system of flagging. Nevertheless it is a notable achievement that NHSCR has successfully monitored such a high proportion of a population of 50 million people, by entirely clerical procedures, for 40 years. Nature Publishing Group 1992-08 /pmc/articles/PMC1977803/ /pubmed/1503917 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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title Completeness of cancer and death follow-up obtained through the National Health Service Central Register for England and Wales.
title_full Completeness of cancer and death follow-up obtained through the National Health Service Central Register for England and Wales.
title_fullStr Completeness of cancer and death follow-up obtained through the National Health Service Central Register for England and Wales.
title_full_unstemmed Completeness of cancer and death follow-up obtained through the National Health Service Central Register for England and Wales.
title_short Completeness of cancer and death follow-up obtained through the National Health Service Central Register for England and Wales.
title_sort completeness of cancer and death follow-up obtained through the national health service central register for england and wales.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1977803/
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