Primary care prostate cancer case ascertainment

Although routine healthcare data are not collected for research, they are increasingly used in epidemiology and are key real-world evidence for improving healthcare. This study presents a method to identify prostate cancer cases from a large English primary care database. 19,619 (1.3%) men had a cod...

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Main Authors: Lemanska, A, Faithfull, S, Liyanage, H, Otter, S, Romanchikova, M, Sherlock, J, Smith, NAS, Thomas, SA, de Lusignan, S
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: IOS Press 2020