Aim: We assessed the extent to which chemotherapy cycles recorded in Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) Admitted Patient Care (APC) were captured in National Cancer Registration & Analysis Service Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT) for a cohort of lung cancer patients. Methods: All chemotherapy cycles recorded for linkage eligible lung cancer patients with a National Cancer Registration & Analysis Service diagnosis between 2012 and 2015 were identified in HES APC and SACT. Results: Among a population of 4070 lung cancer patients, 6076 chemotherapy cycles were observed in HES APC data. A total of 61% of cycles were recorded in SACT on the same day, 8% on a different day and 31% were not recorded in SACT. Conclusion: Our results suggest that SACT may not capture all chemotherapy cycles administered to a patient between 2012 and 2016; however, administrative changes mean data after this period may be more complete.

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Received 23 October 2019

Accepted 21 November 2019

Published online 10 December 2019

Published in print January 2020

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Financial & competing interests disclosure

This study was sponsored by Bristol-Myers Squibb. L McDonald, R Carroll and D Tyas are employees of Bristol-Myers Squibb. C Sammon is an employee of PHMR. A Harish and A Shankar are employees of Mu-Sigma. The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.

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