Comparison of Two Information Sources for Cause-of-Death Follow-up in the Russian Federation: The Asbest Chrysotile Cohort Study.

CONCLUSIONS:  RL completeness and agreement of cause-of-death information obtained from ZAGS and from MIAC were both very high. This is reassuring for the quality of cancer mortality follow-up of the Asbest chrysotile cohort. For future epidemiological studies in the Russian Federation, ZAGS appears to be a reliable information source for mortality follow-up, if the automated RL is complemented with manual searches of cohort members. MIAC is a good resource for prospective studies.
PMID: 32535878 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Methods of Information in Medicine - June 13, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Schüz J, Kovalevskiy E, Moissonnier M, Olsson A, Hashim D, Kromhout H, Kashanskiy S, Chernov O, Bukhtiyarov I, Ostroumova E Tags: Methods Inf Med Source Type: research