An assessment of occupation and industry data from death certificates and hospital medical records for population-based cancer surveillance. | Zendy

G. Marie Swanson | Zendy; Ann G. Schwartz | Zendy; Roger Burrows | Zendy

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An assessment of occupation and industry data from death certificates and hospital medical records for population-based cancer surveillance.

Author(s) -

G. Marie Swanson,

Ann G. Schwartz,

Roger Burrows

Publication year - 1984

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.74.5.464

Subject(s) - medicine , under reporting , medical record , population , death certificate , medical emergency , cause of death , demography , family medicine , environmental health , disease , statistics , surgery , mathematics , sociology

This study analyzed 30,194 incident cases and 4,301 death certificates for completeness of occupational reporting. Analysis of data accuracy was based upon a comparison of more than 2,000 death certificates with incident abstracts and 352 death certificates with interview data. Death certificates had a higher proportion with occupation (94.3%) and industry (93.4%) reported than did incident abstracts of hospital medical records (39.0% and 63.5%, respectively). Compared with occupational history data obtained by interview, 76.1% of the death certificates were exact matches for usual occupation and industry.

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