Health Reports, August 2013
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Released: 2013-08-21
The August 2013 online issue of Health Reports, released today, contains one article.
The article, "An examination of the NAACCR method of assessing completeness of case ascertainment using the Canadian Cancer Registry", uses data from the Canadian Cancer Registry (CCR), vital statistics, and population statistics, to examine the impact of limiting mortality data to the same geographic regions that contribute incidence data when calculating age-standardized incidence-to-mortality rate ratios. This includes assessing the assumption that the age-standardized incidence-to-mortality rate ratios by sex and cancer site vary little by region.
A second objective is to quantify relationships between simpler methods of estimating completeness and the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries' (NAACCR) indicator.
The final objective is to determine if the NAACCR indicator identifies known differences in difficulty of case ascertainment, and known case completeness issues in the CCR.
For more information on this article, contact Dianne Zakaria (1-613-951-4118; dianne.zakaria@statcan.gc.ca), Health Statistics Division.
The August 2013 online issue of Health Reports, Vol. 24, no. 8 (Catalogue number82-003-X), is now available from the Browse by key resource module of our website under Publications.
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