Falls prevention within the Australian General Practice Data Model: Methodology, information model, and terminology issues

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 425-432

  Liaw, Siaw Teng ^a   Sulaiman, Nabil ^a   Pearce, Christopher ^a   Sims, Jane ^a   Hill, Keith ^b   Grain, Heather ^c   Tse, Justin ^a   Ng, Choon Kiat ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL AGEING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONSUMER; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FALLING; GENERAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MODEL; NOMENCLATURE; ONLINE SYSTEM; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; STANDARDIZATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0042334865     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M1281     Document Type: Article

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