The accuracy and completeness of data collected by prospective and retrospective methods

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 884-895

  Nagurney, J Tobias ^a,b   Brown, David F M ^a,b   Sane, Swati ^a,b   Weiner, Justin B ^c   Wang, Andrew C ^d   Chang, Yuchiao ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Data collection; Methodology; Myocardial infarction; Precision; Prospective; Retrospective

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; THORAX PAIN; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHEST PAIN; DATA COLLECTION; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 23944487541     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2005.04.021     Document Type: Article

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