Data quality at the Icelandic Cancer Registry: Comparability, validity, timeliness and completeness
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Validity of the Surveillance Quality Indicators - Timeliness and Completeness - in Surveillance Systems with Variable Data Quality
1Public Health Foundation of India, Indian Institute of Public Health Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India; 2Directorate of Health, Department of Health, Medical & Family Welfare, Government of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad, India; 3Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India; 4Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; 5London School of Hygiene and Trop...
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عنوان ژورنال: Acta Oncologica
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0284-186X,1651-226X
DOI: 10.3109/0284186x.2012.698751