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Validating an algorithm to identify metastatic gastric cancer in the absence of routinely collected TNM staging data

BACKGROUND: Accurate TNM stage information is essential for cancer health services research, but is often impractical and expensive to collect at the population-level. We evaluated algorithms using administrative healthcare data to identify patients with metastatic gastric cancer. METHODS: A populat...

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Autores principales: Mahar, Alyson L., Jeong, Yunni, Zagorski, Brandon, Coburn, Natalie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5930789/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29716600
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-018-3125-7