An assessment of occupation and industry data from death certificates and hospital medical records for population-based cancer surveillance.
- 1 May 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Public Health Association in American Journal of Public Health
- Vol. 74 (5), 464-467
- https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.74.5.464
Abstract
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.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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