Zippin C, Lum D
Cancer Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco.
Health Rep. 1993;5(1):87-90.
Factors that may enter into the completeness/incompleteness of reporting include: 1. The competence and diligence of staff. 2. Familiarity with the record systems used within each hospital department. This limited review suggested that hospitals employing their own staff for case ascertainment achieved somewhat higher completeness of reporting rates compared with institutions that relied on central registry circuit riders to pick up cases. 3. Where cases are identified through computer listings by diagnosis, errors in the coding of some cases may result in the exclusion of these cases. 4. The use of ambiguous diagnostic terms may contribute to missing cases.
可能影响报告完整性/不完整性的因素包括：1. 工作人员的能力和勤勉程度。2. 对各医院科室所使用记录系统的熟悉程度。这项有限的审查表明，与依靠中央登记巡回人员收集病例的机构相比，自行雇用工作人员进行病例确定的医院报告率的完整性略高。3. 通过诊断的计算机列表识别病例时，某些病例编码错误可能导致这些病例被排除。4. 使用含糊不清的诊断术语可能导致病例遗漏。
