Same People, Different Results: Categorizing Cancer Registry Cases Across the Rural-Urban Continuum

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Evaluates patient categorization results produced by applying 9 U.S. rural-urban indexes to 1,569 Wisconsin Pancreatic Cancer Registry patients. Discusses indexes' consistency of results, geographic scale, and other concerns related to their application to cancer research.

Andrea M. Schiefelbein, John K. Krebsbach, Amy K. Taylor, et al.

Wisconsin Medical Journal, 123(2), 78-87

05/2024

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Cancer · Research methods and resources · Rural definitions · Statistics and data