A Plan to Improve Melanoma Tumor Depth Data Quality in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program.

In light of the recent assessment done for ProstateSpecific Antigen values in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program, it is possible that coding procedures for melanoma tumor depth may have similar quality issues. Potential errors that have been initially identified are implied decimal errors, transcription errors, and incomplete information. Because of the SEER Program's commitment to high data quality standards, various studies are being planned to review and adjudicate incorrect lab values for several different data items in the SEER data collection.