The Clinical Outcomes Assessment Toolkit: A Framework to Support Automated Clinical Records-based Outcomes Assessment and Performance Measurement Research

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 333-340

  D'Avolio, Leonard W ^a,b   Bui, Alex A T ^c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT TOOLKIT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROSTATE CANCER; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATABASES AS TOPIC; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 43049089390     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2550     Document Type: Article

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