Health care research with cancer registries

作者：Hoelzel D^*

来源：Onkologe, 2011, 17(2): 143-+.

DOI：10.1007/s00761-010-1941-4

• Cancer registry
• Health services research
• Quality assurance
• Knowledge generation
• Data protection

Clinical cancer registries compile relevant interdisciplinary data from hospitals and general practitioners about findings and treatment with a significant course of diseases and coordinate this with systematic follow-up. Through cancer registries physicians have access to patient records in a manner comparable to hospital information systems. Large recruitment areas, population-based data and valid authenticated data are the source for multifaceted evaluations. According to the intentions of health services research, quality assurance and time trends of long-term outcome can be provided describing possible impacts of legislation, financing, new diagnostics and treatment or organizational changes of the health care system. The generation of such knowledge is still an unfulfilled responsibility of health service research. The possibility of generating this knowledge within the framework of cancer registries is underestimated but these perspectives do not countervail the growing medical bureaucracy and German oncology runs the risk of further marginalization. The possibilities and necessities known since decades will be explained here in a similar way to a mantra to support the economic, occupational, social and therapeutic developments with modern cancer registries and to inspire the future of oncology.

• 出版日期2011-2