TY - JOUR AU - Goldsbury, David AU - Weber, Marianne AU - Yap, Sarsha AU - Banks, Emily AU - O’Connell, Dianne L. AU - Canfell, Karen PY - 2017 DA - 2017/02/27 TI - Identifying incident colorectal and lung cancer cases in health service utilisation databases in Australia: a validation study JO - BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making SP - 23 VL - 17 IS - 1 AB - Data from centralised, population-based statutory cancer registries are generally considered the 'gold standard' for confirming incident cases of cancer. When these are not available, or more current information is needed, hospital or other routinely collected population-level data may be feasible alternative sources. We aimed to determine the validity of various methods using routinely collected administrative health data for ascertaining incident cases of colorectal or lung cancer in participants from the 45 and Up Study in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. SN - 1472-6947 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-017-0417-5 DO - 10.1186/s12911-017-0417-5 ID - Goldsbury2017 ER -