Diagnosis Clusters for Emergency Medicine

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1337-1344

  Travers, Debbie A ^a   Haas, Stephanie W ^b   Waller, Anna E ^a   Tintinalli, Judith E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Emergency medicine; Health services administration; Health services research; Information management

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CODING; DIAGNOSIS CLUSTER; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EVALUATION; FAMILY MEDICINE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL CARE; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTERNAL MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VITAL STATISTICS;

EID: 0346753465     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/S1069-6563(03)00536-0     Document Type: Article

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