Is the golden hour tarnished? Registries and multivariable regression: Answers to the March 2010 Journal Club Questions

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 188-200

  Barrett, Tyler W ^a   Brywczynski, Jeremy J ^a   Schriger, David L ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MEDICAL TRANSPORT; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLUNT TRAUMA; BODY WEIGHT; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE REGISTRY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FATIGUE; HAWTHORNE EFFECT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HELICOPTER; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNAL BIAS; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NOTE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; QUALITATIVE VALIDITY; RISK REDUCTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 77955435123     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2010.04.003     Document Type: Article

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