For all fissures visually assessed as being complete the automatic method resulted in significantly higher completeness scores (mean 92.78%) than for those assessed as being partial or absent (mean 77.16%; all p values <0.001).
Such cases included a majority of patients who emigrated after diagnosis as any other patient remaining in Belgium would end up entering in care, thus higher completeness of such data would probably reinforce the strong association observed between no entry and non-Belgian nationality.
Comparison with data from Statistics Norway showed a lower number of female sterilizations in the latter database for all years 1999 2003, indicating higher completeness in reporting to the Patient Register.
Fig. 6 indicates that FDR' could be improved by lower density (γ3) and higher completeness in the database.
19 The higher completeness in the Norwegian study versus our study may be explained by several factors.
In both states, a comparison of data fields such as ANC and TT vaccination details for pregnant women and DPT (1, 2 and 3), OPV (1, 2 and 3), HEPB (1, 2 and 3) for children (all services delivered routinely at the field level) demonstrated much higher completeness rates in the primary data source than in the MCTS portal.
Observations had shown that paper backups were used for all data transmission at Hospitals A and B. This could offer an explanation to the higher completeness rates in the booklet compared to the Clinical Information System at Hospital A and especially at Hospital B. Hemoglobin level was copied to the ANC register only rarely (85%, 17/20 at Hospital A and 42%, 14/33 at Hospital C).
15– 17 Hence in the future, measures will be taken to obtain higher completeness of registration.
Differences in TNM completeness between the sexes were minor, with males exhibiting a slightly higher completeness than females.
The latter strategy (higher completeness, α) requires further enrichment of the molecular formula database, which is inevitably accompanied by an increase in the density of the database (γ3).
