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Registries

Medical Definition: The systems and processes involved in the establishment, support, management, and operation of registers, e.g., disease registers.
Guide Notes: IM; coord with specific population or disease registered (IM)
Also Called: Parish Registers,Population Register
Previously Indexed: Drugs/adverse effects (1966-1968),Information Systems (1966-1968),Medical Records (1966-1968),Records (1966-1968),Statistics (1966-1968),specific drug group/adverse effects (1966-1968),specific heading/epidemiology (1966-1968)
Registries Categories.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition SEER Program - A cancer registry mandated under the National Cancer Act of 1971 to operate and maintain a population-based cancer reporting system, reporting periodically estimates of cancer incidence and mortality in the United States. The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program is a continuing project of the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health. Among its goals, in addition to assembling and reporting cancer statistics, are the monitoring of annual cancer incident trends and the promoting of studies designed to identify factors amenable to cancer control interventions. (From National Cancer Institute, NIH Publication No. 91-3074, October 1990)

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