The validity of using multiple imputation for missing out-of-hospital data in a state trauma registry

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 314-324

  Newgard, Craig D ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agreement; EMS; Imputation; Out of hospital; Prehospital; Validity

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AMBULANCES; COHORT STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OREGON; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATE GOVERNMENT; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33644502610     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2005.09.011     Document Type: Article

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