The experience of linking Victorian emergency medical service trauma data

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Boyle, Malcolm J ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DATA BASE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD; QUALITY CONTROL; TRAUMATOLOGY; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; METHODOLOGY; REGISTER;

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORD LINKAGE; REGISTRIES; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; TRIAGE; VICTORIA; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 57249086520     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-52     Document Type: Article

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