"Understanding burns": Research project BurnCase 3D-Overcome the limits of existing methods in burns documentation

Burns

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 311-317

  Haller, H L ^a   Dirnberger, J ^b   Giretzlehner, M ^b   Rodemund, C ^a   Kamolz, L ^c  

^a Unfallkrankenhaus Linz   (Austria)

^b RISC Software GmbH   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

3D; 4D; Accuracy; Automatic encoding; BSA; Burns; Complexity; Data collection; Documentation; Evidence

Indexed keywords

BURN; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; DIGITAL COMPUTER; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; BODY SURFACE; BURNS; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATHOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; WORKLOAD;

BODY SURFACE AREA; BURNS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; PHOTOGRAPHY; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WORKLOAD;

EID: 61849114198     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2008.07.010     Document Type: Editorial

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