Evaluating emergency care research networks: What are the right metrics?

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1010-1013

  Baren, Jill M ^a   Middleton, Melissa K ^b   Kaji, Amy H ^b,c   O'Conner, Robert E ^d   Lindsell, Christopher ^e   Weik, Tasmeen Singh ^f   Lewis, Roger J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical Translational Science Award; Conference; Emergency care research network; Evaluation; Metrics

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY CARE; EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; STANDARDIZATION;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CONGRESSES AS TOPIC; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; GOALS; HUMANS; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (U.S.); PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70350073803     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2009.00525.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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