Correctness and Completeness of Breast Cancer Diagnoses Recorded in UK CPRD Aurum and CPRD GOLD Databases: Comparison to Hospital Episode Statistics and Cancer Registry (Companion Paper 2).

Katrina Wilcox Hagberg Catherine Vasilakis-Scaramozza Rebecca PerssonDavid NeashamGeorge Kafatos Susan S Jick

Published in: Clinical epidemiology (2023)

These results indicate that correctness and completeness of malignant breast cancer diagnoses in CPRD Aurum were high and similar to CPRD GOLD. This provides confidence in use of CPRD Aurum for research purposes. Where complete case capture is important, researchers should consider linkage to HES APC or CR.

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