The need for a national emergency health services database

Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 120-124

  Kennedy, Sherry ^a   Young, Wendy ^a,b   Schull, Michael J ^b,c,d   Isaac, Winston ^a,b  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^d SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Administrative data; Canada; Emergency health services; Qualitative study

Indexed keywords

CANADA; DATA BASE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REVIEW; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

EID: 54349100816     PISSN: 14818035     EISSN: 14818035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1481803500009829     Document Type: Review

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