Evaluation of SOVAT: An OLAP-GIS decision support system for community health assessment data analysis

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Scotch, Matthew ^a   Parmanto, Bambang ^a,b   Monaco, Valerie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GRADUATE STUDENT; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SCIENCE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; ONLINE ANALYTICAL PROCESSING; QUESTIONNAIRE; SATISFACTION; SPATIAL OLAP VISUALIZATION AND ANALYSIS TOOL; STATISTICAL MODEL; VIDEORECORDING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; INFORMATION SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNITED STATES;

COMMUNITY HEALTH PLANNING; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, MANAGEMENT; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PENNSYLVANIA; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOFTWARE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 46449139007     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-22     Document Type: Article

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