Using Computer-based Medical Records to Predict Mortality Risk for Inner-city Patients with Reactive Airways Disease

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 313-321

  Tierney, William M ^a,b,c,d   Murray, Michael D ^a,b,d,e   Gaskins, Denise L ^b   Zhou, Xiao Hua ^b,c  

^a WISHARD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b REGENSTRIEF INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Richard L Roudeboush Vet Aff M   (United States)

^e Purdue School of Science   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROGNOSIS; RISK; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASTHMA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIANA; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LOGISTIC MODELS; LUNG DISEASES, OBSTRUCTIVE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 0031178659     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1997.0040313     Document Type: Article

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