Agreement between individual and neighborhood income measures in patients with colorectal cancer in Canada.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

With increasing interest in income-related differences in cancer outcomes, accurate measurement of income is imperative. Misclassification of income can result in wrong conclusions as to the presence of income inequalities. We determined misclassification between individual- and neighborhood-level income and their association with overall survival among colorectal cancer (CRC) patients.

Methods

The Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohorts were used to identify CRC patients diagnosed from 1992 to 2017. We used neighborhood income quintiles from Statistics Canada and created individual income quintiles from the same data sources to be as similar as possible. Agreement between individual and neighborhood income quintiles was measured using cross-tabulations a

SUBMITTER: Davis LE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10165486 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature