Health Reports, June 2015
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Released: 2015-06-17
The June 2015 online issue of Health Reports, released today, contains two articles: "Using personal health insurance numbers to link the Canadian Cancer Registry and the Discharge Abstract Database," and "Social determinants of lung cancer incidence in Canada: A 13-year prospective study."
The first article, "Using personal health insurance numbers to link the Canadian Cancer Registry and the Discharge Abstract Database," investigates the feasibility and validity of using personal health insurance numbers to deterministically link the Canadian Cancer Registry (CCR) and the Discharge Abstract Database (DAD) to obtain hospitalization information about people with primary cancers.
The methods employed to link the CCR and the DAD for nine provinces are described and the quality of this deterministic linkage is evaluated. Details on linkage rates, agreement on demographic identifiers and clinical diagnoses, and out-of-province hospital admissions are presented for prostate, female breast, colorectal and lung cancers, which together account for more than half of primary cancers diagnosed annually.
For more information on this article, contact Media Relations at the Public Health Agency of Canada (613-957-2983).
The second article, "Social determinants of lung cancer incidence in Canada: A 13-year prospective study," uses data from the 1991 Canadian Census cohort to quantify the risk of lung cancer by individual measures of socioeconomic status (educational attainment, income, and occupation) and examine associations by sex, age, and histologic subtype.
For more information on this article, contact Media Relations at the Public Health Agency of Canada (613-957-2983).
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The June 2015 online issue of Health Reports, Vol. 26, no. 6 (82-003-X), is now available from the Browse by key resource module of our website under Publications.
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