Units of measure in clinical information systems

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 151-162

  Schadow, Gunther ^a,d   Mcdonald, Clement J ^a   Suico, Jeffrey G ^a   Föhring, Ulrich ^b,c   Tolxdorff, Thomas ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d REGENSTRIEF INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MODEL; STANDARD;

EID: 0033036040     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1999.0060151     Document Type: Article

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