Validity of cancer diagnosis in the National Health Insurance database compared with the linked National Cancer Registry in Taiwan.

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We aimed to evaluate the validity of cancer diagnosis in the National Health Insurance (NHI) database, which has routinely collected the health information of almost the entire Taiwanese population since 1995, compared with the Taiwan National Cancer Registry (NCR).

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf

Title: Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety

Publisher: Wiley

ISSN (Electronic): 1099-1557

ISSN (Print): 1053-8569

Publication date (Electronic): Aug 16 2017

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[1 ] Department of Radiation Oncology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan.

[2 ] Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Science, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.

[3 ] Radiation Biology Research Center, Institute for Radiological Research, Chang Gung University and Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan.

[4 ] Department of Public Health, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan.

[5 ] Department of Anaesthesiology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan.

[6 ] Department of General Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan.

[7 ] Department of Paediatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan.

[8 ] Department of Haemato-oncology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan.

[9 ] Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan.

[10 ] Division of Rheumatology, Orthopaedics and Dermatology, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK.

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DOI: 10.1002/pds.4267

PubMed ID: 28815803

SO-VID: 85b35c6f-e337-4e7a-b9ee-07f194270984

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Keywords: Taiwan National Health Insurance database,validity,pharmacoepidemiology,cancer diagnosis

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Keywords: Taiwan National Health Insurance database, validity, pharmacoepidemiology, cancer diagnosis

Validity of cancer diagnosis in the National Health Insurance database compared with the linked National Cancer Registry in Taiwan.

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