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From: Identifying incident colorectal and lung cancer cases in health service utilisation databases in Australia: a validation study

Fig. 2

Sensitivity and PPV of hospital diagnosis records after the NSW Cancer Registry diagnosis date, February 2006 to December 2010. APDC: Admitted Patient Data Collection; NSWCR: New South Wales Cancer Registry; PPV: Positive predictive value. Does not include cancers identified from the APDC prior to the NSWCR diagnosis date (3% of colorectal cancers, 2% of lung cancers)

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