Adequacy of medical chart review to characterize emergency care for asthma: Findings from the Illinois Emergency Department Asthma Collaborative

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 345-348

  McDermott, Michael F ^a   Lenhardt, Richard O ^b   Catrambone, Catherine D ^c   Walter, James ^d   Weiss, Kevin B ^e  

^a Jr Hospital of Cook County   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c RUSH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthma; Direct observation; Emergency department; Intermethod reliability; Medical chart; Process of care

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ASTHMA; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KAPPA STATISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33644517294     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2005.09.006     Document Type: Article

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