Interrater reliability of injury coding in the Queensland Trauma Registry

Emergency Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 38-41

  Neale, Rachel ^a   Rokkas, Philippa ^a   McClure, Roderick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Wounds and injuries

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATIENT CODING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; REGISTER; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRAUMATOLOGY; VALIDATION PROCESS; WOUND;

ABBREVIATED INJURY SCALE; HUMANS; QUEENSLAND; REGISTRIES;

EID: 0037296522     PISSN: 10356851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-2026.2003.00406.x     Document Type: Article

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