An assessment of occupation and industry data from death certificates and hospital medical records for population-based cancer surveillance.
This study analyzed 30,194 incident cases and 4,301 death certificates for completeness of occupational reporting. Analysis of data accuracy was based upon a comparison of more than 2,000 death certificates with incident abstracts and 352 death certificates with interview data. Death certificates had a higher proportion with occupation (94.3%) and industry (93.4%) reported than did incident abstracts of hospital medical records (39.0% and 63.5%, respectively). Compared with occupational history data obtained by interview, 76.1% of the death certificates were exact matches for usual occupation and industry.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003625:Data Collection; D003644:Death Certificates; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D005260:Female; D006753:Hospital Records; D006801:Humans; D007221:Industry; D008297:Male; D008824:Michigan; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality*; D009790:Occupations; D011996:Records; D012737:Sex Factors