Death certificate notifications in the Swiss Childhood Cancer Registry: assessing completeness and registration procedures

Death certificate notifications in the Swiss Childhood Cancer Registry: assessing completeness and registration procedures

QUESTIONS UNDER STUDY: Completeness is important in cancer registration. Identifying areas to improve registry procedures might help to maximise completeness. We examined characteristics of childhood cancer cases that were registered via death certificate notification (DCN) rather than during life...

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Main Authors: Matthias Schindler, Vera Mitter, Eva Bergstraesser, Fabienne Gumy-Pause, Gisela Michel, Claudia Elisabeth Kuehni, Swiss Paediatric Oncology Group (SPOG)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SMW supporting association (Trägerverein Swiss Medical Weekly SMW) 2015-12-01
Series:Swiss Medical Weekly
Subjects:
paediatrics
registry
childhood cancer
completeness
Online Access:https://www.smw.ch/index.php/smw/article/view/2135

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