ECHO: The Western Australia emergency care hospitalisation and outcome linked data project

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 123-127

  Sprivulis, Peter ^a   Da Silva, Julie Ann ^b   Jacobs, Ian ^b,c   Jelinek, George ^a,b   Swift, Roger ^b  

^a FREMANTLE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DEATH; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STANDARDIZATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AMBULANCES; DATA COLLECTION; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT ADMISSION; SURVIVAL RATE; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33646268810     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.2006.tb00103.x     Document Type: Article

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