The potential of using billing data for emergency department injury surveillance

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 282-287

  Weiss, Harold B ^a,b   Dill, Susan M ^a,b   Garrison, Herbert G ^a,b,d,e   Coben, Jeffrey H ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b Ctr for Injury Research and Control   (United States)

^c Dept of Hlth Serv Administration ^*

^d EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e E Carolina Inj Prevention Program   (United States)

Author keywords

emergency department; hospital records; injury; preventive medicine; public health; research; surveillance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DATA BASE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL BILLING; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HUMAN; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT CODING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL SECURITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030991741     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1997.tb03549.x     Document Type: Article

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