Study designs and evaluation models for emergency department public health research

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1124-1131

  Broderick, Kerry B ^a,b   Ranney, Megan L ^c   Vaca, Federico E ^d   D'Onofrio, Gail ^e   Rothman, Richard E ^f   Rhodes, Karin V ^g   Becker, Bruce ^e   Haukoos, Jason S ^a,b,h  

^a DENVER HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^h Food Science and Human Nutrition   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Clinical research; Models; Program evaluation; Public health; Study design; Validity

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY WARD; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE;

CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCES AS TOPIC; DATA COLLECTION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 73249121844     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2009.00557.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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