Advanced Statistics: Understanding Medical Record Review (MRR) Studies

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 187-192

  Worster, Andrew ^a   Haines, Ted ^b  

^a HAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evidence based medicine; Medical records; Research design; Retrospective studies

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONFIDENTIALITY; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT INFORMATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; SAMPLING; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0842282693     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2003.03.002     Document Type: Article

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