Evaluation of completeness of selected poison control center data fields

Journal of Medical Systems

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 499-507

  Jaramillo, Jeanie E ^a   Marchbanks, Brenda ^a   Willis, Branch ^a   Forrester, Mathias B ^b  

^a Texas Panhandle Poison Center   (United States)

^b TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Coding; Completeness; Poison control center

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CODING; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; POISON CENTER; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED VOCABULARY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL AUDIT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; MEDICAL AUDIT; POISON CONTROL CENTERS; POISONS; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

POISON;

EID: 77956059067     PISSN: 01485598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10916-009-9263-z     Document Type: Article

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