A system of metadata to control the process of query, aggregating, cleaning and analysing large datasets of primary care data

Informatics in Primary Care

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 281-291

  van Vlymen, Jeremy ^a   de Lusignan, Simon ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data processing methods; Metadata; Primary care data quality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIBRARY; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; NOMENCLATURE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RELIABILITY; VALIDITY;

EID: 33644512747     PISSN: 14760320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14236/jhi.v13i4.608     Document Type: Article

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