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Friday 11 September, Parallel session D
Methods in ethnicity research
Investigating the association between ethnicity and survival from breast cancer using routinely collected health data: challenges and potential solutions
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  1. A. Downing1,
  2. D. Forman1,2,
  3. J. D. Thomas1,
  4. R. M. West1,
  5. G. Lawrence3,
  6. M. S. Gilthorpe1
  1. 1
    Centre for Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
  2. 2
    Northern & Yorkshire Cancer Registry & Information Service, St James’s Institute of Oncology, Leeds, UK
  3. 3
    West Midlands Cancer Intelligence Unit, Public Health Building, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

    https://doi.org/10.1136/jech.2009.096735j

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      Background

      Previous studies have reported differences in survival from breast cancer by ethnic group. Some of these studies have taken information on ethnicity from routinely collected data, such as Hospital Episode Statistics (HES). There are several problems associated with using ethnicity from HES data, such as multiple ethnicities being recorded for a single patient with multiple hospital visits, and missing data. This study will investigate methods to overcome these problems in order to assess the relationship between ethnicity and survival from breast cancer. …

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