[Evaluation of medical information systems as a mean of identification of incident cases of colorectal cancer].

Background: Cancer registries are a reliable source of data to estimate national cancer incidence rates, but they are not always available in all regions. This study assessed the value of medical information systems (PMSI) to identify incident cases of colorectal cancer

Methods: Two algorithms were elaborated to identify these incident cases in the PMSI database. The first algorithm was based on diagnosis and medical procedure codes and the second algorithm was based exclusively on diagnoses and the absence of diagnoses over the last five years.

Comparison of British and French expatriate doctors' characteristics and motivations.

Objective: The aim of this study was to analyse the migration of doctors between the UK and France, in an attempt to identify the reasons for these migrations.

Design: This was a cross-sectional study conducted using a self-completed questionnaire.

Setting: The questionnaire was sent to all British doctors practising in France and to all French doctors practising in the UK.

Estimation of national colorectal-cancer incidence using claims databases.

Background. The aim of the study was to assess the accuracy of the colorectal-cancer incidence estimated from administrative data. Methods.

Chronic viral hepatitis and risk of lymphoid malignancies: a retrospective twelve-year population-based cohort study in Côte d'Or, France.

Background: The association between hepatitis C infection and lymphoid malignancies is still a matter of debate. The hypothesis of a relationship between hepatitis B and lymphoid neoplasms is more recent and has been far less thoroughly explored.

Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between hepatitis C and B infections and B cell non-Hodgkin and Hodgkin lymphomas.

Environmental justice in a French industrial region: are polluting industrial facilities equally distributed?

Recent studies have suggested that minority or deprived groups are subject to the additional burden of a polluted living environment. Our goal is to determine whether such environmental inequalities occur in France's leading industrial region, using detailed socio-economic data and advanced Bayesian methods. Associations between proximity to hazardous facilities (i.