Victorian Emergency Minimum Dataset: Factors that impact upon the data quality

EMA - Emergency Medicine Australasia

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 104-112

  Marson, Rebecca ^a   Taylor, David McD ^a   Ashby, Karen ^b   Cassell, Erin ^b  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Data; Emergency department; Quality; Registry

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL STAFF; NURSING STAFF; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; STAFF TRAINING;

EID: 17844409046     PISSN: 17426731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2005.00700.x     Document Type: Review

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