Missing in action: A case study of the application of methods for dealing with missing data to trauma system benchmarking

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1122-1129

  O'Reilly, Gerard M ^a,b   Jolley, Damien J ^b   Cameron, Peter A ^a,b   Gabbe, Belinda ^a,b  

^a ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

missing data; multiple imputation; trauma registry

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; CASE MANAGEMENT; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INJURY SCALE; MEDICAL RECORD; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUDDEN DEATH; SURVIVOR; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

BENCHMARKING; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT ADMISSION; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAUMA CENTERS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; VICTORIA; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 78649464693     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2010.00887.x     Document Type: Article

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