Building a pan-Canadian primary care sentinel surveillance network: Initial development and moving forward

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 412-422

  Birtwhistle, Richard ^a,h   Keshavjee, Karim ^b   Lambert Lanning, Anita ^c   Godwin, Marshall ^d,e   Greiver, Michelle ^d,e   Manca, Donna ^f   Lagacé, Claudia ^g  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b InfoClin Inc   (Canada)

^c Professional Development and Practice Support   (Canada)

^d MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^g PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^h Department of Family Medicine ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANADA; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; REVIEW;

CANADA; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DATABASES AS TOPIC; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 67650928205     PISSN: 15572625     EISSN: 15587118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2009.04.090081     Document Type: Review

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