Silcocks P B, Thornton-Jones H, Skeet R G
Public Health. 1989 Jan;103(1):23-30. doi: 10.1016/s0033-3506(89)80098-8.
Completeness of ascertainment is a central issue for any disease register. We outline the process of cancer registration as carried out in a large population-based Registry and argue that none of the various methods proposed to estimate the completeness of ascertainment are satisfactory. We suggest an alternative way of looking at the issue and describe various constraints that hamper attempts to achieve complete registration.
病例确诊的完整性是任何疾病登记的核心问题。我们概述了在一个大型的基于人群的登记处进行癌症登记的过程，并认为所提出的各种估计确诊完整性的方法都不尽人意。我们提出了看待这个问题的另一种方式，并描述了阻碍实现完整登记的各种限制因素。
