The role of all‐payer claims databases to expand central cancer registries: Experience from Colorado

Objective To evaluate the quality of a multiyear linkage between the Colorado all‐payer claims database (APCD) and the Colorado Central Cancer Registry. Data sources Secondary 2012–2017 data from the APCD and the Colorado Cancer Registry. Study design Descriptive analysis of the proportion of cases captured by the linkage in relation to the cases reported by the registry. Data collection/extraction methods We used probabilistic linkage to...