Establishing the scope and methodological approach to out-of-hospital outcomes and effectiveness research

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1067-1073

  Keim, Samuel M ^a,b   Spaite, Daniel W ^a   Maio, Ronald F ^a   Garrison, Herbert G ^a   Desmond, Jeffrey S ^a   Gregor, Mary Ann ^a   O'Malley, Patricia J ^a   Stiell, Ian G ^a   Gene Cayten, C ^a   Chew Jr , John L ^a   MacKenzie, Ellen J ^a   Miller, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

emergency medical services research; out of hospital medicine; outcomes research

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FUTUROLOGY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DATABASES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RESEARCH; RISK ADJUSTMENT;

EID: 4544255826     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2004.04.014     Document Type: Article

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