Estimating the Completeness of Lung Cancer Registry in Ardabil, Iran with a Three-Source Capture-Recapture Method

• Published in: Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP Vol. 17; no. S3; p. 225
• Main Authors: Khodadost, Mahmoud, Mosavi-Jarrahi, Alireza, Hashemian, Seyed Sepehr, Sarvi, Fatemeh, Maajani, Khadije, Moradpour, Farhad, Khatibi, Seyed Reza, Amini, Hossein
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Thailand 2016
• Subjects: Aged; Death Certificates; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Incidence; Iran - epidemiology; Linear Models; Lung Neoplasms - epidemiology; Male; Medical Records; Middle Aged; Population Surveillance; Prognosis; Registries - standards; Registries - statistics & numerical data

Cancer registration is an important component of a comprehensive cancer control program, providing timely data and information for research and administrative use. Capture-recapture methods have been used as tools to investigate completeness of cancer registry data. This study aimed to estimate the...