[The pitfalls of lung cancer coding practices based on the evaluation of the National Cancer Registry]. / A tüdorákhoz kötodo kódolási gyakorlat buktatói a Nemzeti Rákregiszter felmérése alapján.
Magy Onkol
; 68(2): 115-123, 2024 Jul 16.
Article
in Hu
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-39013085
ABSTRACT
The quality of input data determines the reliability of epidemiological assessments. Thus, the verification of cases reported to the National Cancer Registry is required. The objective of our study was evaluating the reliability of cases diagnosed by lung cancer, exploring the patterns of erroneous reports. The validation of the 11,750 lung cancer cases reported to the Cancer Registry in 2018 was performed with the involvement of the recording hospitals, analyzing the characteristics of reports by gender, age and attributes of the reporting institutions. 81.3 percent of the reported cases was confirmed, in 40.4 percent of the false reports, malignancy was not present at all. Among the erroneous cases women and the elderly age group were overrepresented. The highest deleted rate occurred in Borsod- Abaúj-Zemplén county. As a conclusion, there is a strong need for the improvement of the efficiency in encoding lung cancer. The most common errors confusion of malignant-benign, cancerous-non-cancerous and primary-metastatic lesions. The reliability is not affected by the role of individual institutions in the hierarchy of health care. The availability of reliable epidemiological data is crucial in the fight against cancer, which requires broad professional cooperation.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Registries
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Clinical Coding
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Lung Neoplasms
Limits:
Adult
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Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Country/Region as subject:
Europa
Language:
Hu
Journal:
Magy Onkol
Journal subject:
NEOPLASIAS
Year:
2024
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Hungary