Assessment of the Validity and Reliability of Three Systems of Medical Record Screening for Quality of Care Assessment

Medical Care

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 748-751

  Camacho, Luiz A B ^a   Rubin, Haya R ^b  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Medical record screening; Quality of care; Reliability; Validity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL RECORD; NURSING; OBSERVER VARIATION; RANDOMIZATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; UNITED STATES;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; BALTIMORE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032066147     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-199805000-00014     Document Type: Article

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