1. Opening up Data Analysis for Medical Health Services: Cancer Survival Analysis with CARESS
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Eunice Sirri, Stefan Gudenkauf, David Korfkamp, H. Jürgen Appelrath, Martin Rohde, and Joachim Kieschke
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Actuarial science ,Computer science ,business.industry ,Health services research ,Cancer ,Cancer survival ,medicine.disease ,language.human_language ,German ,Spatial clustering ,language ,medicine ,Medical health ,business ,Quality assurance ,Healthcare system - Abstract
Dealing with cancer is one of the big challenges of the German healthcare system. Originally, efforts regarding the analysis of cancer data focused on the detection of spatial clusters of cancer incidences. Nowadays, the emphasis also incorporates complex health services research and quality assurance. In 2013, a law was enacted in Germany forcing the spatially all-encompassing expansion of clinical cancer registries, each of them covering a commuting area of about 1 to 2 million inhabitants [1]. Guidelines for a unified evaluation of data are currently in development, and it is very probable that these guidelines will demand the execution of comparative survival analyses.
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- 2014
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