Identifying work related injuries: Comparison of methods for interrogating text fields

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  McKenzie, Kirsten ^a   Campbell, Margaret A ^a   Scott, Deborah A ^a,b   Discoll, Tim R ^c   Harrison, James E ^d   McClure, Roderick J ^e  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b MATER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOCUMENTATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PUBLIC HEALTH;

AUSTRALIA; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PUBLIC HEALTH; SUBJECT HEADINGS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 77952400693     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-10-19     Document Type: Article

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