Operational Definitions of Colorectal Cancer in the Korean National Health Insurance Database.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We reviewed the operational definitions of colorectal cancer (CRC) from studies using the Korean National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) and compared CRC incidence derived from the commonly used operational definitions in the literature with the statistics reported by the Korea Central Cancer Registry (KCCR).

Methods

We searched the MEDLINE and KoreaMed databases to identify studies containing operational definitions of CRC, published until January 15, 2021. All pertinent data concerning the study period, the utilized database, and the outcome variable were extracted. Within the NHIS-National Sample Cohort, age-standardized incidence rates (ASRs) of CRC were calculated for each operational definition found in the literature between 2005 and 2019. These rates were

SUBMITTER: Park H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10415647 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature