Quality of prostate cancer data in the Cancer Registry of Norway

摘要: Abstract Completeness of reporting and internal validity the coding prostate cancer in Cancer Registry (CR) Norway were examined. Data matched evaluated against diagnostic indices at eight selected hospitals country death certificates from Statistics Norway. Validity control was based on detailed reanalysis an approximately 1% sample registered data during period 1957–1986. The deficiency less than 1%. grave deficiencies hospital patient registers considered to be non-systematic nature should, therefore, not impair reliability our investigation incompleteness. revealed errors 0.5% elements, or, illustrated differently, 6% files had error, importance or not, one elements. One false positive registration found among 298 controlled (0.3%).