Monitoring quality control can we get better data?

Epidemiology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 621-627

  Harel, Ofer ^a   Schisterman, Enrique F ^b   Vexler, Albert ^b   Ruopp, Marcus D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; MONITORING; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; STANDARD; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA COLLECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMANS; QUALITY CONTROL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 49849088652     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e318176bfb2     Document Type: Article

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