Guideline validation in multiple trauma care through business process modeling

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 70, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 301-307

  Stausberg, Jürgen ^a   Bilir, Hüseyin ^a   Waydhas, Christian ^b   Ruchholtz, Steffen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Business process modeling; Guidelines; Multiple trauma; Quality management; Surgery

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SURGERY;

TRAUMA CARE;

MEDICAL EDUCATION;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER SYSTEM; GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENCE; VALIDATION PROCESS; WORK SCHEDULE;

EID: 0041565044     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1386-5056(03)00057-1     Document Type: Article

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