Outcome Analysis: Considerations for an Electronic Health Record

M.D. Computing

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 50-56

  Dolin, Robert H ^a  

^a KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; MEDICAL RECORD; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; REVIEW;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATABASES, FACTUAL; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE);

EID: 0030639456     PISSN: 07246811     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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