Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10345600 | Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine | 2012 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
This paper aims at to present the integration of the files of the Brazilian Cervical Cancer Information System (SISCOLO) in order to identify all women in the system. SISCOLO has the exam as the unit of observation and the women are not uniquely identified. It has two main tables: histology and cytology, containing the histological and cytological examinations of women, respectively. In this study, data from June 2006 to December 2009 were used. Each table was linked with itself and with the other through record linkage methods. The integration identified 6236 women in the histology table and 1,678,993 in the cytology table. 5324 women from the histology table had records in the cytology table. The sensitivities were above 90% and the specificities and precisions near 100%. This study showed that it is possible to integrate SISCOLO to produce indicators for the evaluation of the cervical cancer screening programme taking the woman as the unit of observation.
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Authors
Sergio Miranda Freire, Rosimary Terezinha de Almeida, Maria Deolinda Borges Cabral, Ediane de Assis Bastos, Rômulo Cristovão Souza, Mariá Gonçalves Pereira da Silva,