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J Registry Manag
; 49(3): 88-91, 2022.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-37260926
ABSTRACT
Identifying potential duplicate cancer cases across state boundaries has been a topic of interest for many years. Duplicate cases could distort our understanding of the burden of cancer in a state, region, or even nationally, and waste cancer surveillance resources. This paper reports a pilot quality improvement project to use a publicly available tool to encrypt a standard set of patient identifiers and then link cases across state boundaries as a way to identify and reconcile possible duplicate cases among a group of neighboring states. The paper describes the protocol, challenges, and preliminary results, and suggests future efforts.